O3 - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property RightsReturn

This article deals with the funding of research and development in new EU member states. The introductory part of the text offers a theoretical characteristic of the area of research and development. In the second part, there is described the funding, human resources in the research and development area and the results. The final part provides a discussion of the efficiency of the research and development funding; the discussion is based on a correlation analysis that is focused on the relationship between financial inputs on the one hand and patents and scientific publications on the other hand.