Methodology - Government budget allocations for R&D

Statistics of government budget allocations for R&D (GBARD) is made with annual periodicity based on the Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council and on the methodology provided in the Frascati Manual (OECD, 2015). A list of socio-economic objectives is provided in the Nomenclature for the Analysis and Comparison of Scientific Programmes and Budgets (NABS, Eurostat 2007).

In the Czech Republic, statistics of government budget appropriations for R&D (GBARD) is compiled based on administrative data obtained from the Information system of research, development, and innovation. Data are also partially obtained directly from individual providers of public support of R&D. Statistics of direct government support of R&D takes into account terminology and specification of expenditure pursuant to the Act No 130/2002 Sb, on the Support of Research, Experimental Development, and Innovations from Public Funds (as amended).

Government budget appropriations for R&D (GBARD) include in the case of the Czech Republic all financial sources provided from the state budget to support R&D, including sources flowing to the R&D abroad. According to the valid international methodology, the government support of R&D excludes support of R&D via loans to be repaid, pre-financing of programmes of the EU covered by income from the European Union, and support of innovations.

All data on the government budget allocations for R&D (GBARD) result from data provided in the State Final Account of the Czech Republic for the area of R&D. It applies to expenditure, which was really drawn for R&D from the state budget in the given year (not to amounts approved in the Act on the State Budget of the CR for the given year).