On 17th February 2016, the European Commission launched a website Research and Innovation Observatory Horizon 2020 - Policy Support Facility. The site allows benchmarking of research and innovation and supporting of Horizon 2020 policies.
This instrument is designed to monitor and analyze developments in the field of research and innovation across the EU and thus encourage the creation of better policies. The JRC (Joint Research Centre) publishes annually, in cooperation with national experts, national reports RIO. The reports document the development of national research and innovation policies and identify the main challenges for the establishment of new strategies. The website provides a thematic analysis reports also. The new website allows you to sort the information by countries, including reports, statistics and visualization of key indicators.
More info: https://rio.jrc.ec.europa.eu/en
Illustrative photo, source: flickr.com/Frederico Cintra