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DefinitionLand and buildings include land acquired for R&D use (e.g. testing grounds, sites for laboratories and pilot plants) and buildings constructed or purchased for R&D use, including...
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DefinitionMachinery and equipment cover major (i.e. capitalised) machinery and equipment acquired for use in the performance of R&D.Data sourceR&D surveys.Source definitionOECD (2015),...
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DefinitionOther current costs comprise non-capital purchases of materials, supplies, equipment and services to support R&D performed by the statistical unit in the reference year. Examples are...
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DefinitionOther intellectual property products include the costs for purchased patents, long-term licences or other intangible assets used in R&D, and which are in use for more than one year....
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DefinitionPrivate non-profit expenditure on R&D (PNPERD) represents the component of GERD incurred by units belonging to the Private non-profit sector (see the definition of Private non-profit...
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DefinitionPublic general university funds (GUF) are defined as the R&D funding share coming from the general grant universities receive from the central government (federal) ministry of education...
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DefinitionR&D coefficients are a tool for calculating / estimating the shares of personnel and expenditure data attributable to R&D. They are especially used for distributing total resources...
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DefinitionProfessionals engaged in the conception or creation of new knowledge (who conduct research and improve or develop concepts, theories, models, techniques instrumentation, software or...