R&D in the government and higher education sector

In the government and higher education sector, a total of 48 CZK billion was spent on research and development (R&D) in 2023. The higher education sector accounted for 26.2 billion CZK and the government sector 21.8 billion CZK. These two sectors accounted for 34% of the total expenditure on R&D. 13.8 thousand persons (full-time equivalent) were employed in R&D in the government sector and in the higher education sector there were almost 20,000 employees. In the higher education sector, 41% of R&D workers were women, in the case of the government sector it was 49%.

(year 2024)

Czechia, Region	Number of workplaces R&D	R&D personnel - full-time equivalent¹⁾			R&D expenditure
		Total	share of total R&D personnel in region (%)	women	Total (CZK million)	by type		share of total R&D expenditure in region (%)
		Total	share of total R&D personnel in region (%)	women	Total (CZK million)	current expenditure	capital expenditure	share of total R&D expenditure in region (%)
Czechia	218	20,831	24.0	8,376	28,218	26,169	2,049	19.2
Hlavní město Praha	67	8,156	24.0	2,855	11,446	10,724	722	19.0
Středočeský kraj	4	248	2.9	95	371	370	1	2.0
Jihočeský kraj	13	598	21.1	304	822	791	31	19.6
Plzeňský kraj	17	911	24.7	311	1,092	997	95	19.4
Karlovarský kraj	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ústecký kraj	7	200	18.0	88	195	173	22	12.2
Liberecký kraj	8	482	21.4	211	584	537	47	15.1
Královéhradecký kraj	9	686	30.6	353	952	882	70	28.7
Pardubický kraj	8	304	11.9	110	551	485	66	13.3
Kraj Vysočina	1	6	0.5	2	7	7	-	0.4
Jihomoravský kraj	35	5,341	31.8	2,330	7,402	6,849	554	29.4
Olomoucký kraj	15	1,893	48.1	907	2,036	1,871	165	32.1
Zlínský kraj	9	355	11.6	157	506	505	1	10.7
Moravskoslezský kraj	25	1,653	35.4	650	2,253	1,978	275	30.8

1) Recalculated number of persons for full annual working time dedicated to R&D
Source: CZSO, Annual survey on research and development VTR 5-01