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R&D in the government sector and in the private non-profit sector

Expenditures on R&D 2021
Government sector and private non-profit sector
1.06 bn. EUR
Gone up compared to 2019
R&D Personnel 2021
Government sector and private non-profit sector
6 148.3 FTE
Gone up compared to 2019

The survey on research and experimental development (R&D survey) is a biennial census survey conducted on odd calendar years in all economic sectors and is based on the R&D statistics regulation.

In addition to R&D expenditures, funding and personnel, the objective of the research is also recorded. Breakdowns of the results are available by major fields of science, types of expenditure, source of funds, function and types of R&D. The methodological basis is the OECD’s Frascati Manual.

The government sector comprises federal, provincial and local government institutions and institutions of the chambers as well as R&D institutions of the social insurance system. It also includes institutes of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft and the Austrian Academy of Sciences as well as private non-profit institutions (NPIs) funded and/or controlled by the public sector. The private non-profit sector comprises all other private NPIs.

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Survey on Research and experimental Development (R&D) 2021. Compiled on 18 July 2023. - Central, regional and local institutions (except those of the higher education sector), chambers, R&D facilities of the units belonging to the social security system, private non-profit institutions controlled and/or mainly financed by government as well as R&D institutions of the Ludwig Boltzmann society; including Austrian academy of sciences and AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH; without provincial hospitals. Provincial hospitals were not surveyed by questionnaire, but R&D expenditures were estimated by Statistics Austria based upon reports from the regional governments. Therefore no data on R&D personnel is available. - Rounding differences occur.

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Survey on Research and experimental Development (R&D) 2021. Compiled on 18 July 2023. - Private non-profit institutions with a mainly private, religious or other non-public status or under private law. - Rounding differences occur.

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Last updated on 2023-08-29.
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