Deputy PM: Poland should spend 2% of GDP on R&D
Total spending on research and development in Poland should grow to 2 percent of the country's GDP by 2020, Deputy PM and Infrastructure and Development Minister Elżbieta Bieńkowska told the Polish Press Agency in an interview.
This should include both public and private spending. Currently Poland’s spending on R&D amounts to about 0.7-0.9 percent of the GDP, Bieńkowska said. In her opinion not only should the amount grow, but also the structure should change.
“Half of these funds should come from private sources… Polish companies prefer to buy ideas abroad than to finance something that can be researched in Poland, then a prototype made and implemented, also in Poland,” the Deputy PM said.
Bieńkowska’s ministry wants to use money from the new EU-funded Intelligent Development program to encourage the cooperation of business and academia. There will be a number of incentives, such as financing for innovation brokers and technology development loans.
