European Union has proved to be one the most successful unions in the World. Not only economically and politically, but educationally and in areas of research, EU leads the market. All the investment done in this area contributes not only to the Europeans but to the worldwide population. Even though Europeans only make up 6% of the world’s population they contribute to science by making up 27% of the world’s scientists.
So it is no wonder that Europe is the place to some of the best universities with the most innovative programmes, and some of the best innovative companies in the world. 20% of the world expenditure goes on research, in Europe. There is no wonder that 32% of the publications are high impact publications, and 32% of findings by European scientists are patented applications.
These are some of the numbers that unite 500 Million people in one single market, producing the world’s fastest-growing scientific world.