摘要：Switzerland belongs to the most R&D-intensive economies, although it has lost some positions on the
international ladder of R&D intensity at country level in recent years being superseded by some
OECD countries which increased their R&D spending very much in this time (e.g. Finland and
Korea).
1 The R&D/GNP ratio is of about 2¾ %, slightly less than in the eighties (3%). Three quarter
of R&D is financed by the private sector, with some increase of public financing during the last two
decades; nevertheless, the public share still belongs to the lowest among the OECD-countries.
Although most R&D is done by large multinationals, Swiss SME’s are more R&D-intensive than
those of most other highly developed countries. R&D is thus a pervasive phenomenon in the Swiss
economy.
