Direction de la Science, de la technologie et de l'innovation
Measuring governments’ R&D funding response to COVID-19
An application of the OECD Fundstat infrastructure to the analysis of R&D directionality
This paper presents new evidence on the size and direction of governments’ R&D funding
response to the COVID-19 pandemic through the exploration of a novel data infrastructure,
the OECD Fundstat initiative for the analysis of government-funded R&D projects. The
document reports on the exploratory development and application of automatic classification
tools to detect relevant COVID-19 R&D funding, map salient topics and classify and
allocate project funding according to priorities in the WHO COVID-19 R&D Blueprint,
as well as comparing results with similar analysis of scientific publication output
data. The results provide new insights on which areas of enquiry were prioritised
by governmental R&D funding bodies.
Published on October 16, 2023
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