Technicians in R&D and equivalent staff are people whose main tasks require technical knowledge and experience in engineering, physical and life sciences (technicians), or social sciences and humanities (equivalent staff). They participate in R&D by performing scientific and technical tasks involving the application of concepts and operational methods, normally under the supervision of researchers.

Number of technicians in R&D (per million people)

20002005201020112012201320142015201620172018
Bosnia and Herzegovina52.639.740.852.166.163.767.050.9
Bulgaria479.2491.5498.9442.2
Croatia395.2601.4600.9621.4617.1659.4676.5745.8638.2714.1
Czechia711.31,342.61,515.71,619.11,739.61,788.41,873.81,825.21,828.91,957.22,186.4
Hungary505.5455.2601.1657.5708.9787.9696.9727.4641.0770.3
North Macedonia114.581.582.059.6109.353.367.874.485.091.991.1
Moldova93.080.666.365.773.668.667.573.570.860.4
Montenegro103.3102.2202.7129.4175.4156.2
Poland354.0233.2285.4359.8420.6384.7438.5443.6399.8415.3
Romania292.8233.4153.3252.4251.9248.0225.1267.4275.4278.8
Serbia334.8300.0312.5324.7350.8420.3430.9410.8412.0
Slovak Republic666.2415.8386.2355.0383.9329.4366.5389.2412.1484.1520.6
Slovenia1,616.41,413.61,922.32,459.42,313.12,522.92,392.32,399.62,373.91,814.2