The Czech Statistical Office reported on 27 October 2026 that research and development expenditure in Czechia totalled CZK 158.8 billion in 2025, CZK 12 billion more than a year earlier. The share of this spending in gross domestic product rose to 1.85 percent after two years of stagnation at 1.82 percent. According to Martin Mana, director of the office's department of social development statistics, the European Union average has in recent years been around 2.3 percent.[1]
Sources of funding
Public sources accounted for CZK 58.5 billion, 12 percent more year on year; national sources provided CZK 46 billion. Funding from EU resources reached CZK 12.6 billion, the highest in the past ten years. Private sources supported research in Czechia with CZK 98.7 billion.[1]
Business sector
Spending by enterprises rose by 5.9 percent to CZK 100.7 billion. Almost 2,900 enterprises carry out research and development, about 600 of them under foreign control; these firms spent CZK 66.3 billion, two thirds of the business sector's expenditure. Enterprises controlled from the United States spent CZK 22.6 billion, mostly in information technology, and German enterprises CZK 20.7 billion, mainly in the automotive industry.[1]
Employment
In research and development, 125,000 people worked; the number has exceeded 120,000 for the fifth year. Women made up about 30 percent, and in a European comparison Czechia, together with the Netherlands, Luxembourg or Austria, is among the countries with the lowest share.[1]
Chronology
- — The Czech Statistical Office reported on 27 October 2026 that research and development expenditure in Czechia rose last year by 12 billion to 158.8 billion koruna. ČTK / České noviny Parlamentní listy
Sources
- ČTK / České noviny — 27 October 2026