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ERR - The nation's "scientific output" is at the EU-average, concluded the European Commission's Innovation Union Competitiveness Report 2011.
In the last decade, research and development increased from 0.60 percent of GDP in 2000 to 1.42 percent in 2009 - "an impressive annual average growth rate above 10 percent," the report wrote.
Estonia's research and development target for 2020 has been set to 3 percent. "This is ambitious, but realistic in the case business research and development grows significantly," said the report.
The country's research is dominated by government funding and universities. While the private sector has made progress, the number of patents remains relatively low. "The Estonian manufacturing sector is not yet able to compete in hightech goods," the report wrote.
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