1 Production and use of S&T&I Statistics and Indicators in Republic of Macedonia State Statistical Office Ministry of Education and Science October 2008, Belgrade REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA STATE STATISTICAL OFFICE

2 CONTENT  Production of S&T&I Statistics and Indicators  Some Science and Technology Indicators  Needs and Obstacles

3 INSTITUTIONS INVOLVED IN R&D POLICY  Ministry of Education and Science  Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts,  Ministry of Economy  Ministry of Health  Ministry of Ecology  4 States Universities and  13 S&T Institutes  R&D unit within industry

4 Institutes involved in R&D policy:  The Ministry of Education and Science (MES) is the government body responsible for R&D policy in the Republic of Macedonia  The MES has the responsibility to organise, finance, develop and promote science, technological development, as well as international co-operation related to these issues.  In this context MES is the most concern for analysing and monitoring of the indicators for making adequate policy decisions

5 Legal Framework:  Law on Scientific and Research Activity  Law on Encouraging and Supporting the Technological Development  Law on Higher Education  Law on Industrial and Intellectual Property Protection  Law for Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts  Law on State Statistics

6   At the moment the analyze of these indicators on R&D is performed in the Ministry   The analyze on bibliometrics is made by National Library bibliotheca

7 Production of S&T&I statistics:  State Statistical Office of the Republic of Macedonia is responsible body for collecting, processing and dissemination of S&T&I statistics  Sector for Social statistics-Department for social services (crime and public statistics, social protection, health statistics, education and science)

8 Two statistical surveys 1. Statistical survey for scientific and research - development activity - annual survey 2. Innovation ( survey for reporting units ) – five- year survey

9 HISTORY  The survey for research and development began in 1968  From 1997 the methodology for conduction of the scientific and research- development activity survey is changed according to the Frascati manual

10 Harmonization Classifications are harmonized with international standards: Classifications are harmonized with international standards:  ISCED,  Classification of Scientific Fields-2001, according to UNESCO and OECD methodology and CERIF),  NACE that provide international comparison of the data

11 R&D Personnel and Expenditure are processed according to: –Sector of performance –Type of employment –Gender –Age –Part time –Full time

12 –FTE –Professional attainment –Ethnic affiliation –Field of science –ISIC –Personnel and expenditure by region

13 Response rate  For 2006, the total received reports were 85.9 %.  Response rate is decreasing.  The publication for 2007 is in the phase or preparation and will be ready at the end of October 2008

14 Users of R&D data  Ministry of Education and Science  OECD  Eurostat  UNESCO  Others

15 Innovation statistics  The research is carried out in 2005  Methodological materials are obtained from Eurostat on our request  The results were published in  The response rate is 64.4%

16 R&D Intensity (%) of GDP by Sector of Performance Year GERD (Gross Domestic Expenditure on R&D) / GDP BERD (Expenditure on R&D in the Business Sector) / GDP GOVERD (Government Intramural Expenditure on R&D) / GDP HERD (Expenditure on R&D in the Higher Education Sector) / GDP

17 GERD as % of GDP (comparison by countries) EU-15EU-25HRMKROTRGERD/GDP

18 Structure of Gross Expenditure on R&D by sectors of performance Year Total Business sector Government sector Higher education

19 R&D Personnel by sector of performance Year Total Business sector Government sector Higher education

20 FTE by sector of performance Year Total Business sector Government sector Higher education

21 FTE/Labor Force Year Total FTE FTE / 1000 Labor Force

22 Obstacles  Science and technology are still a low priority in national system  Our academic and scientific community do not pay enough attention for these indicators although there are several public institutes funded by the state to conduct such analyzes  Even at the governmental level there is not enough awareness for the importance of these indicators  In general there is a lack of interest for S&T&I Statistics and Indicators.

23 Obstacles In the sphere of production of statistics:  Statistical office is understaffed in this area, only one person is responsible for the survey  Missing of data for some key institutions, that reflects to the quality of the data (especially in Business Sector and Natural Sciences)

24 Needs  Increasing the awareness for the importance of S&T&I Indicators, especially at Government level  More intensive collaboration between the stakeholders (Government, MES, SSO and responding units, especially cooperation with R&D unit in Business sector)  Improvement of internal capabilities for production of S&T&I statistics, the quality of the R&D data, increase of coverage of the survey, training of staff – in SSO for analyzing the data and in MES for using of the bibliometrics data

25 Webpages: (Ministry of Education and Science) (State Statistical Office)

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