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Belgium

Belgium

OECD total

130

115

125

112

120 109

115 106

110

103

105 100

100

Belgium

OECD total

11%

8% Unemployment rate

Vulnerable employment

22% Youth unemployment rate

OECD total


Top/Bottom 5 OECD values

Middle range of OECD values

OECD median

Belgium

a. Competences and capacity to innovate Innovative entr epr eneur ship

R&D and innovation in fir ms

Univer sities and public r esear ch 200

Top half OECD

150 100

Bottom half OECD

50

0

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

(f)

(g)

(h)

(i)

(j)

(a) P ublic R &D expenditure (per GD P )

(d) B us ines s R &D expenditure (per GD P )

(h) Venture c apital (per GD P )

(b) T o p 500 univ ers ities (per GD P )

(e) T o p 500 c o rpo rate R &D inv es to rs (per GD P )

(i) Yo ung patenting firm s (per GD P )

(c ) P ublic atio ns in the to p jo urnals (per GD P )

(f) T riadic patent fam ilies (per GD P )

(j) Eas e o f entrepreneurs hip index

(g) T radem ark s (per GD P )

b. Interactions and skills for innovation Networ ks, cluster s and tr ansfer s

ICT and Inter net infr astr uctur es

Skills for innovation

200 Top half OECD

150 100

Bottom half OECD

50

0

(k)

(l)

(m)

(n)

(o)

(p)

(q)

(r)

(s)

(t)

(u)

(v)

(w)

(k ) IC T inv es tm ent (per GD P )

(o ) Indus try-financ ed public R &D expenditure (per GD P )

(s ) T ertiary educ atio n expenditure (per GD P )

(l)

(p) P atents filed by univ ers ities and public labs (per GD P )

(t) A dult po pulatio n at tertiary educ atio n lev el (%)

(m ) Wireles s bro adband s ubs c riptio ns (per po pulatio n)

(q) Internatio nal c o -autho rs hip (%)

(u) T o p adult perfo rm ers in tec hno lo gy pro blem -s o lv ing (%)

(n) E-go v ernm ent dev elo pm ent index

(r) Internatio nal c o -inv entio n (%)

(v ) T o p 15 year-o ld perfo rm ers in s c ienc e (%)

F ixed bro adband s ubs c riptio ns (per po pulatio n)

(w) D o c to ral graduate rate in s c ienc e and engineering (%)




OECD

Domestic firms

SMEs

Belgium

Belgium (2007)

Industry 100

High-tech manufacturing

80 60

High-knowledge market services

40 Non-resource-based manufacturing industries

20

Primary and resource-based industries

0

Low-knowledge services

Large firms

Medium to low-tech manufacturing

Foreign affiliates Services

OECD median

Belgium

EU28

Belgium (2000-03)

3.0 50.4

59.3

23.0

% of IP5 patent families applications filed by universities and PRIs

2.5

2.0

1.5

1.0

0.5

0.0 Biotechnologies

ICT

Environment-related technologies



Belgium

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

OECD median

Indirect funding

Direct funding

Competitive Debt Repayable grants financing and advances risk-sharing mechanisms

Technology consulting

Innovation vouchers

Equity financing

Public Tax Tax procurement incentives for incentives for business IP revenues R&D and other profits

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General references

Other tax base





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