The dashboards provide a quick overview of two key indicators for each Member State, as identified in the Integrated SET Plan Communication:
- the level of investment in R&I, both private (business and industry expenditure) and public (national programmes and instruments)
- trends in patents related to the Integrated SET Plan Actions.
The data is compiled using the Joint Research Centre’s in-house methodology for Monitoring R&I in Low-Carbon Energy Technologies and aligns with the research and innovation indicators in the State of the Energy Union Reports.
For updated figures, functionality issues or other concerns, please contact SET-PLAN-SECRETARIAT
ec [dot] europa [dot] eu (the SET plan secretariat).
Data sources:
- Public investment as available in the International Energy Agency RD&D Statistics database, for codes relevant to the Integrated SET Plan Actions. Public investment does not include funds from EU framework programmes or other funding instruments at EU level.
- Patent data based on the European Patent Office PATSTAT database. Data are extracted from PATSTAT using the Y02 scheme of the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) for codes relevant to the Integrated SET Plan Actions. Patent statistics are based on the priority date, simple patent families and fractional counts of submissions made both to national and international authorities. A fraction of the family is allocated to each applicant and relevant technology.
- Private investment as estimated by JRC SETIS.
Relevant publications:
Monitoring R&I in Low-Carbon Energy Technologies
Energy R&I financing and patenting trends in the EU
Assessing private R&D spending in Europe for climate change mitigation technologies via patent data
SQL query to increase data accuracy and completeness in PATSTAT
Patent-Based Indicators: Main Concepts and Data Availability