The national prirorities of oriented research, experimental development and innovation were approved by government

The R&D priorities are the result of the work of dozens of national experts from various sectors and fields based on outlook studies and analysis focused on the identification of the main issues and also the main valid strategic documents. Analyses of these materials and the preparation itself were made from May 2011 to January 2012. Part of the R&D Priorities are also the system measures, assessments of relations between individual fields and forms of their utilization during the implementation of R&D in the Czech Repubblic.

The R&D Priorities are in force until 2013. They are established as a certain concrete object of public and private interest, which is a combination of long-term goals and multidisciplinary focus, is society-wide applicable and desirable, attainable with the Czech Republic’s material and personal resources, solvable in the long-term and attainable via the R&D activities. The application of the new R&D Priorities will lead to a more effective use of public resources for the support of R&D, which would better reflect the key needs of the development of the Czech society. The main benefit and meaning of the R&D Priorities is the strategic orientation of the part (especially of the applied, but also of the basic) of the national R&D into areas, which will help solving fundamental current and expected future problems and challenges of the Czech Republic and will enable to use the potential opportunities for the balanced development of the Czech Republic.

The details can be found here.