Republic of Cyprus Second Voluntary National Report - Sustainable development goals

74 DEVELOPMENT IN NUMBERS VNR 2017 VNR 2020 2017-2020 Growth SDG09 – INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE OVERALL IMPLEMENTATION LEVEL (%) 39.64 71.93 81.46% Gross Domestic Expenditure on R&D (% of GDP) 0.5 0.6 31.3% R&D Personnel (% of active population) 0.3 0.4 42.5% Employment in High and Medium-High Technology Manufacturing and Knowledge-Intensive Services (% of total employment) 39.7 39.6 -0.3% Patent Applications to the European Patent Office (number per million inhabitants) 46.0 53.7 16.6% Note: Green shows an improvement of the indicator, while red shows a decline in progress. White colour shows a stable performance.