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Science and Technology Data — 2003
Acronyms, Abbreviations and Definitions
Acronyms and Abbreviations
| BERD |
Business enterprise expenditure on research and development |
| GERD |
Gross domestic expenditure on research and development |
| GDP |
Gross domestic product |
| HE |
Higher education |
| HERD |
Higher education expenditure on research and development |
| ISI |
Institute for Scientific Information |
| OECD |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| PNP |
Private non-profit organization |
| PRO |
Provincial research organization |
| R&D; |
Research and development |
| S&T; |
Science and technology |
Definitions
| R&D; |
Research and development is creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humankind, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications. |
| S&T; |
Research and development plus related scientific activities such as scientific data collection, information services, and operation and policy studies. |
| Sponsored research |
Research that is directly funded by sources external to the higher education sector. |
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