STI Ecosystem
Current Ecosystem
50+ research
institutions
12300+
average #
of students
(BA, MA, PhD)
~ 650 companies in ICT
> 20%
3000+
~ 90$
annual average
growth of ICT
companies
average #
of graduates
(BA, MA, PhD)
mln investment in
startups since 2014
Tax privileges for IT
Free economic zones (FEZs)
Preferential trade arrangements (PTAs)
& Regional trade agreements
Multinational corporations
(MNCs) presence
STI ECOSYSTEM CHALLENGES
0.25 %
of GDP is spent on R&D
OECD average is 2%
of GDP is spent on
Higher Education High technology
exports score is
of manufactured exports
6 PCT patent 0.05 Patents by
OECD average is 1.6%
< 700
PhDs and DSc per mln
population
7 times less than world top 10 value
th
No Armenian university
makes it into the list
of top
universities of the world
1000
0.2 %
applications per year
OECD average is 30
Large gap between
universities/research
institutes and industry
6.8%
World top 10 th value is 22%
origin (bln PPP $GDP)
World top 10 th value is 12.15
24.5%
only
in
the crucial cohort of
researchers from 41 - 60
years old