Since the 1990s major new players have emerged in science and technology u0096 notably in Asia. The result is an … increasingly multi-polar world where science, technology and patent applications are more widely distributed throughout the world …. Figure 1 shows that almost 80 % of researchers work outside the EU, 75 % of gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD) is …

across sectors such as energy and labour market integration. …