Terms A-Z

This glossary contains definitions of the terms from the topic areas Education, Science, Research and Innovation, and is regularly updated. The glossary terms are alphabetically ordered.

Financing perspective

The statistics on R&D expenditures are collected both from the funding institutions and from the research institutions (implementation perspective). The financing perspective provides information on the financial contributions of the funding providers, that is, from the government, businesses, and private non-profit organizations, typically regardless of the recipient. For the government side, these are primarily budget data (financial statistics) (see also Implementation perspective).