Austrian Research and Technology Report 2020

Education at a Glance 2019
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In its “Education at 
a Glance” report, the Organisation for Economic 
Co-operation and Development (OECD) publishes 
an annual compilation of education indicators for 
the purposes of international comparison, focus-
ing on participation in education, graduate ratios, 

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Austrian Research and Technology Report 2020
investment in education and teaching/learning 
settings. It covers OECD member states and a 
number of other countries. 
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European Innovation Scoreboard 2019 (EIS)
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The European Innovation Scoreboard analyses and 
compares the innovation performance of EU mem-
ber states as well as other European and non-Eu-
ropean countries. An analysis of strengths and 
weaknesses enables the countries to identify 
where they are making progress and spot key ar-
eas where they need to improve their innovation 
performance. A total of 27 different indicators are 
included and these are divided into four main cat-
egories and ten innovation dimensions.
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Innovation Indicator: 
The Innovation Indicator 
was compiled by the Fraunhofer Institute for Sys-
tem and Innovation Research (ISI) and the Leibniz 
Centre for European Economic Research in Mann-
heim (ZEW) on behalf of the Federation of German 
Industries (BDI). This composite indicator for the 
measurement of national innovation potential con-
sists of 38 input and output indicators. In turn, 
they are divided into the following five sub-indica-
tors: education, research, industry, government 
and society.
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OECD – Main Science and Technology Indica-
tors:
The OECD publishes important indicators on 
a wide range of topics in its database,
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including 
industry, education, energy and transport as well 
as research and development. The database con-
tains information on OECD countries and selected 
non-member states. Indicators on R&D expendi-
ture and triadic patent applications have been se-
lected for this report.
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