The Czech data set has been prepared in cooperation with the OKO IST Branch Contact Organisation (grant supported by MSMT CR) running in UTIA AV CR. The data set contains organisations, which have been involved in both types of projects:

1. European IST projects within the 5th and 6th Framework Programme,
2. the nationally funded R&D projects in similar technological areas.

The data have been manually collected from the The Czech Central Register of R&D Projects and from the Cordis database.

The Czech Central Register of R&D Projects is updated once a year, this data set is from March 2007.