New Employment Statistics from the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey
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| Audience/Grade: | Graduate-Professional Development |
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Business and Economics Engineering Education Research Entrepreneurship and Innovation General Engineering, Engineering Science |
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Francisco Moris Organization:NSF - National Science Foundation Nirmala Kannankutty |
| Description: | Companies located in the United States that performed or funded research and development domestically or overseas employed an estimated 27.1 million workers worldwide in 2008 (table 1). R&D employees (employees who perform or directly support R&D activities) accounted for 1.9 million, or 7.1%, of this worldwide employment. The domestic employment of these companies totaled 18.5 million workers, including 1.5 million domestic R&D employees.[2] Thus, domestic R&D employment accounted for 7.9% of companies' total domestic employment and for 77% of their worldwide R&D employment. In 2008 companies reported $346 billion of company-performed R&D worldwide; 82% of this activity was performed in the United States. Workers engaged in R&D activities have a direct input into the creation and diffusion of knowledge, and in turn contribute to innovation and economic growth. The figures in this report are the first employment statistics to be released from the new Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS), developed jointly by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Census Bureau. These statistics are preliminary; final data will be available in early 2011.[4] Employment statistics in this InfoBrief refer to headcounts. See "Definitions" and "Survey Information and Data Availability," below, for further information. |
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| Keywords: | employment innovation |
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NSF Division of Science Resources Statistics - Science and Engineering |
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New measures from BRDIS related to R&D employment that will be available in future publications include R&D employment by selected occupational category (engineers, scientists, technicians, and support staff), level of educational attainment (PhD and other college degrees), and sex. The survey will also provide the number of non-U.S. citizens with temporary visas (such as H-1B or L-1) who are employed by industry as R&D scientists and engineers in the United States. |
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| Publication Date: | July 2010 |
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WWW |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf10326/?WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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