"RESEARCH FUNDING: European Science Not As Intense As Hoped"

SOURCE: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND COMPETITIVENESS KEY FIGURES REPORT 2008/2009 via Science.

Daniel Clery in last week's Science magazine wrote that Europes

"R&D intensity" (research spending as a percentage of gross domestic product) pretty much stuck at about 1.84%--a long way from the E.U.'s self-imposed goal of reaching an R&D intensity of 3% by 2010.