On February 18, 2014, the Cabinet endorsed Malta’s new National Research and Innovation Strategy 2020. This document set out Malta’s research and innovation strategy for the forthcoming seven-year period. Recognising the progress made over the last years and acknowledging that there was still a way to go in achieving the objectives set out in the 2007-2010 R&I Strategic Plan, the ultimate goal of this Strategy remained that of embedding research and innovation at the heart of the Maltese economy to spur knowledge-driven and value-added growth and to sustain improvements in the quality of life.
The Mission of this strategy was to provide an enabling framework for achieving this vision, building on past achievements as well as lessons learnt along the way. This Strategy and its implementation did not, by themselves, provide all the building blocks of a knowledge-based economy but were a crucial step towards this. The achievement of this stated Mission depended on putting in place the necessary ‘building blocks’.
This Strategy has since concluded and has been hence superseded by the National R&I Strategic Plan 2023-2027.
