An Assessment on Heterogenic Structure of the European Union in Science and Research Area

With the Lisbon Strategy declared in 2000, the European Union aimed to be the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world. With the European 2020 Strategy later on, the Union accepted that it had fallen behind the global actors in the area of science and research and implemented certain policy sets for both member countries and itself. Necessity of empowering the science and research area especially in terms of production of scientific knowledge and research and development activities made the Union invest in the area. This study will comparatively elaborate the heterogenic structure of the Union with the data of member states’ research-development expenditures, number of the researchers, number and quality of scientific publishing and knowledge intense economies