R&D intensity is forecast by Statistics Austria to reach 3.19% in 2018. These impressive advances notwithstanding, Austria is unlikely to achieve the very ambitious national R&D intensity target of 3.76% by 2020, as set in the federal government’s Research Technology and Innovation (RTI) Strategy 2011-20. From 1998 to 2016, Austria showred the second highest increase in R&D intensity of all OECD countries, exceeded only by Korea. The rapid expansion of R&D inputs was matched by a similar increase in human resources for STI.