Eurostat - Science, Technology and Innovation

A dataset including:

• R&D intensity (NUTS2),
• Researchers as a percentage of persons employed (NUTS2)
• Human resources in science and technology by virtue of occupation (NUTS2)
• Patent applications to the EPO (NUTS3)
• ICT patent applications to the EPO (NUTS3)

[NUTS levels][NUTS] (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of countries for statistical purposes, which was developed by Eurostat [NUTS]:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclature_of_Territorial_Units_for_Statistics]