Total expenditure by the government on Research and Development (R&D) in 2007 amounted to €11.3 million (Lm4.85 million), an increase of €0.7 million (Lm0.3 million) or 6.7 per cent over the previous year, the National Statistics Office said.
Of this expenditure, 63.5 per cent went to meet labour costs, 33.8 per cent to other recurrent expenditures, while 2.8 per cent was spent on capital projects.
In 2007, 967 employees were engaged in R&D work with the government. Of these, 940 were engaged on a part-time basis.
The NSO said that the highest employment activity in R&D was in medical sciences, accounting for 303 employees in 2007. This was followed by the social sciences with 260 employees.