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The EWI Budget Browser offers an overview of all the credits allocated within the policy domain of EWI in 2010, together with a summary of the various budgets available for science policy across different policy domains. The funding stream is analysed from 1999 to the present day, allowing Flanders to be compared with the wider international community.

Contents

The Budget Browser 2010 consists of four parts.

Part 1 deals with the budget funds for the EWI policy area. The structure of the budget of expenses of the Flemish government is followed for this purpose, with the following budget programmes as regards content: the economic support policy, policy support and academic policy, valorisation and industrial policy, and finally, general policy.

The second part gives an overview of the Flemish government’s science and innovation policy. Then the ‘actual science policy’ is discussed (from the policy areas of EWI and Education and Training – OV), followed by the science policy in the other policy areas. Thereafter follows an analysis of the Horizontal Science Policy Budget Programme (HBPWB) and finally, an expenditure analysis of the science funds allocated by the Flemish government.

The third part supplies detailed information on research and development (R&D). To emphasise the international status of Flanders, the R&D activities of the Flemish public sector is compared with those of other countries.

Part 4 is new and discusses the public support for eco-innovation, an as yet undeveloped indicator in Pact 2020. The public budgets for 2007-2009 are presented and briefly explained.

The initial 2010 budget funds are referred to in this publication – in accordance with the decree of 18 December 2009 concerning the general budget expenditure of the Flemish Community for the 2010 budget year. For the time periods we always used the definitive funds for the previous years (2009 and earlier) – after the budget controls and any budget restructuring. In 2010, the budget lines were given new codes. The basic allocation numbers were replaced with a new serial number attached to the programme code. The structure, which is based on policy areas, budget programmes and entities, has, however, been retained. The one-to-one relationship between the old and new codes will enable budget fluctuations to be monitored.

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