Fig 2. Input-Output for R&D across the baseline group.

Sources: GERD, BERD and the number of full time equivalent (FTE) researchers data were obtained using the OECD Main Science and Technology Indicators (http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=MSTI_PUB). The number of publications and citations was obtained using the ISI National Science Indicators (Thomson Reuters, 2011). The GDP was obtained from the World Bank Indicators www.worldbank.org. Patents were obtained from WIPO, Industrial Property Statistics—Aggregate Patent Data, (2013).http://www.wipo.int/ipstats/en/statistics/patents/index.html.