• Data reference period
• Regions for Portugal 2020

• SECTOR OF PERFORMANCE HIGHER EDUCATION:  The performance sector of higher education in the context of the survey of national technological and scientific potential comprises all universities, higher education institutions, polytechnic and other post-secondary education establishments, regardless of the source of their financial resources and their legal status. Also included are all institutions (research centres and institutions, hospitals and clinics, etc.) that operate under the direct control of higher education establishments or are managed by these. The sector further comprises private NPIs controlled and primarily funded by Higher Education.
• SECTOR OF PERFORMANCE - PRIVATE NON-PROFIT-MAKING INSTITUTIONS:  The performance sector of private non-profit-making institutions in the context of the survey of national technological and scientific potential comprises private or semi-public bodies that have not been founded for profit-making purposes. Basically, this sector comprises scientific and professional enterprises, foundations and research institutions dependent on associations and foundations.
• REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
• SECTOR OF PERFORMANCE - GOVERNMENT:  The performance sector of government in the context of the survey of national technological and scientific potential comprises all general government bodies and related entities, irrespective of their contextual level (central, regional or local) and the respective funding sources, that supply collective services and which coordinate the administration of public assets and implement the economic and social policy of the collective. The sector also comprises private NPIs controlled and primarily funded by the State.

(Total gross expenditure on R&D performed by State, higher education and private non-profit institutions financed by national and foreign entreprises funds/ Total gross expenditure on R&D performed by State, higher education and private non-profit institutions)*100