I'm not getting the research points I think I should be....

[Psitticine]

You definitely do need a space port for research points to be "transported". I was recently playing a new game and setting up my first out-of-the-homesystem colony. It was a research center and I decided to see what happened if I left out the space port. The results were that none of the RPs generated in that system were added to the empiral total, until I went back and built that space port, of course!

I can only assume this applies to intelligence points as well.