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Summary of Survey Content
The new Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) covers a variety of data on the R&D activities of companies operating in the United States. The five main topic areas are financial measures of R&D activity; company R&D activity funded by others; R&D employment; R&D management and strategy; and intellectual property, technology transfer, and innovation.
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- Financial measures of R&D activity
- Detail on domestic and worldwide R&D activity
- Company R&D expense
- Includes social science R&D
- By business segment (i.e., below the company level)
- By U.S. state location and country location
- Outsourced R&D by sector (universities, other companies, etc.)
- Detail on domestic and worldwide sales
- Capital expenditures for R&D (buildings, software, equipment)
- Projected R&D expense
- Measures of company R&D activity funded by others
- Funds for worldwide R&D activity as well as domestic activity
- R&D funded by others
- By business segment (i.e., below the company level)
- By U.S. state location
- By foreign versus domestic organization
- R&D performed for others under grants, contracts, or other agreements
- By type of organization (other companies, federal government, state and local governments, others)
- For clinical trials and the production and testing of prototypes
- Measures related to R&D employment
- R&D employee counts (headcount)
- U.S. headcount versus worldwide headcount
- By occupational category (scientists, engineers, technicians, support)
- By sex and level of educational attainment
- Number of U.S. R&D employees working under a visa (H-1B, L-1, etc.)
- R&D full-time equivalents (FTEs)
- Measures related to R&D management and strategy
- Share of R&D
- Devoted to social sciences
- Devoted to new business areas for the company
- Spent on research versus development
- Devoted to specific application areas (health, defense, energy, etc.)
- Devoted to specific technology areas, such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, software
- R&D partnerships
- By sector (universities, companies, government)
- By type of organization (customer, vendor, competitor)
- Measures related to intellectual property (IP), technology transfer, and innovation
- Participation in activities that introduce new or improve existing goods, services, methods of manufacturing, distribution, or support systems
- Patent-related data
- Licensing to outside parties
- Participation in specific technology-transfer activities
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