European R&D Intensity
The innovation-competitiveness headline for every European country: gross domestic expenditure on R&D as a share of GDP - total, plus the split by who performs it (business enterprise, government, higher education) - one row per country × sector × year. The R&D-intensity number in every competitiveness, tech-policy and industrial-strategy report; joins to macro and regional on country code. Licence-clean and AI-training-safe.
- Source
- Eurostat
- Licence
- Redistributable open data
- Updates
- Annual
- Data through
- 2024-01-01
- Quality
- QC clean · 0 failures
- Format
- Apache Parquet + dictionary
Safe to train on
Built only from a named, redistributable official source under a documented open licence - not scraped web data. No copyright grey zone, no personal data. Ships machine-readable Croissant metadata (ML Commons - loads in Hugging Face / Kaggle / Google), an AI training-licence manifest documenting source, licence and provenance for your model's data governance, and a machine-readable data dictionary (drop it into an agent / RAG prompt so the model knows every column) - all inspectable before you buy.
What's included
- R&D intensity (% of GDP) - total + business, government, higher-education performers
- Every European country, annual, 2000-present
- The headline innovation/competitiveness metric (the EU 3%-of-GDP target)
- One row per country × sector × year; joins to macro, NUTS2 regional on country code
- Source: Eurostat (CC-BY-4.0, Decision 2011/833/EU) - EU/EFTA + candidate geos
Schema
| Column | Type | Description | Filled | Distinct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| zone | str | Geo / country code (DE, FR, SE, …) | 100.0% | 37 |
| ts | timestamp (UTC) | Year | 100.0% | 25 |
| indicator | str | R&D intensity: total / business / government / higher education | 100.0% | 4 |
| value | float | % of GDP | 100.0% | 329 |
| unit | str | Unit | 100.0% | 1 |
| res_min | int | Native resolution (annual) | 100.0% | 1 |
Sample & preview
Every purchase ships as Apache Parquet with a data dictionary and the full QC report. A free sample (first rows + schema) is downloadable here - confirm fit before you buy. Source: Eurostat (redistributable open data; attribution passes through - see our Licence).
Don't trust screenshots - drop the sample into your notebook right now.
import pandas as pd df = pd.read_parquet("european-rd-intensity_sample.parquet") df.info() # typed columns, gap-aware, ready to join⬇ Download free Parquet sample or CSV for Excel
Coverage: 37 zones
AL · AT · BA · BE · BG · CH · CY · CZ · DE · DK · EE · EL · ES · FI · FR · HR · HU · IE · IS · IT · LT · LU · LV · ME · MK · MT · NL · NO · PL · PT · RO · RS · SE · SI · SK · TR · UK
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