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**Expenditure and employment in Internal R&D activities related to biotechnology - Year 2017**
Indicator	Note	Value	Variation
Internal expenditure	¹	1,693,773	7.2
Employed personnel Total	²	26,692	7.5
Employed personnel Women	²	15,344	9.4
Researchers. Total	²	16,693	5.9
Researchers. Women	²	9,003	7.6

Variation: percentage compared to the previous year
- Thousands of euros
- People on a full-time equivalent

The objective of the Statistics on Biotechnology Use is the measurement of the national effort in biotechnology-related activities, so that it is capable of providing the necessary information for the taking of adequate scientific-technological policy decisions. In this regard, the objective is to ascertain the type of biotechnology-related activities that are carried out in each of the sectors in which the economy is divided; the final application areas of the products obtained via the development of biotechnologies; economic and human resources appointed to the biotechnology-related productive and investigation activity in Spain.

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Year 2017 Published: 24/06/2019

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