EC DG Research - Researchers' Report 2013

The Researchers’ Report 2013 prepared by Deloitte Consulting for the European Commission’s Directorate - General for Research and Innovation looks at the extent to which those prerequisites are being met, since a full understanding of the researcher landscape in its complexity is indispensable for sound decision- and policy-making.The Report is the second of three annual reports, which measure the extent to which progress is being made on the various undertakings by the countries who participate in the European Research Area (ERA). It is based on qualitative and quantitative data. It also provides the basis for further analysis on the observed correlation between a lower degree of openness in terms of some of the indicators for the research professio n used in this report and low performance on the Innovation Union Scoreboard, and for identifying clusters of low- performing countries.