Every two years the Centre for R&D Monitoring, in collaboration with the Flemish government Department of Economy, Science and Innovation and the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office, carries out an OECD based survey on the R&D activities of Flemish companies. This leaflet highlights a number of remarkable figures from the 2008 R&D survey (reference year 2007) with a focus on the private research efforts. Some figures for 2008 from t…