National Survey of Research and Experimental Development - Statistical Report (2012/13)

This Statistical Report presents data tables from the 2012/13 South African National Survey of Research and Experimental Development (R&D survey). The report provides key findings of the survey with commentary, standard summary tables of the overall findings from 2012/13 along with time series from previous instances of the survey. The Statistical Report is published together with the Main Analysis Report which provides selected analysis of the survey data.
The survey covers the sectors that perform R&D in South Africa, namely the business, not-for-profit, government, science councils and higher education sectors. This approach is followed in order to maintain consistency with the institutional sector categorisation recommended by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in The Measurement of Scientific and Technological Activities: Proposed Standard Practice for Surveys on Research and Experimental Development, known as the Frascati Manual (OECD 2002).
R&D statistics are presented in tables according to the following categories:
• Gross domestic expenditure on research and development (GERD), and R&D expenditure by R&D-performing sectors,
• Local and international sources of funding for R&D sectors,
• R&D expenditure by field of research and socio-economic objective, and by industrial sector in the business sector,
• R&D expenditure in selected areas of policy interest, namely biotechnology, nanotechnology, environment-related, opensource software, new materials, and tuberculosis (TB), HIV/AIDS and malaria research, and
• R&D personnel.