Research and Development in Business

Key facts and figures about the economy, employment and unemployment for the East of England region.

Service Lives of R&D Assets: Patent Approach. This publication considers the use of patent life estimates as an indicator of R&D service lives, discussing the strengths and limitations of this approach in detail.

This release will test the long held assumption that funders of research and development are also the owners of any resulting asset, using the results from a pioneering question added to Gross Expenditure on Research and Development surveys. The paper will then suggest how R&D capital should be allocated across industrial sectors.

Service Lives of R&D Assets: Background and Comparison of Approaches

Table showing Skewness, Kurtosis, and Box-Cox transformation of variables

The most reliable estimate of national research and development spending that draws together information on research and development spending in the public and private sectors: business enterprises, government, higher education, private non-profit.

Revisions spreadsheet with information on value first published and then five years on.

Regional Tables for the GERD publication

The most reliable estimates of national research and development spending that draws together information on research and development spending in the public and private sector

Breakdowns of research and development spending and employment by UK business across different market sectors.

This release provides estimates of businesses' expenditure and employment relating to R&D performed in the UK in 2011, irrespective of the residence of the ultimate owner/user of the R&D produced. Estimates in cash terms present the values of R&D expenditures collected by the Business Enterprise Research and Development (BERD) survey, while real terms estimates have been adjusted for changes in the general price level between years using the GDP deflator. This allows changes in the volume of R&D expenditures to be examined over time.

Revisions spreadsheet with information on value first published and then five years on.

UK Business Enterprise Research and Development 2010

The BERD survey is the key source of data on UK businesses’ Research & Development and aims to provide information covering all Research & Development performed by businesses in the UK

PDF download - Quality and Methodology Information for UK Gross Domestic Expenditure on Research and Development (GERD)

Key facts and figures about the economy, employment and unemployment for the East of England region.

Region and Country Profiles provides a source of essential statistics for the regions of England and the constituent countries of the UK (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). The tables provide a wide range of economy and labour market statistics to compare the countries, regions and local authority areas.

Guidance and methodological information for ONS's Business Investment statistics.

The most reliable estimate of national research and development spending that draws together information on research and development spending in the public and private sectors: business enterprises, government, higher education, private non-profit.

Breakdowns of research and development spending and employment by UK business across different market sectors.

UK Business Enterprise Research and Development 2010

Summary Quality Report for Business Investment - PDF download

Details of the ONS Survey of Research and Development carried out in the UK

The most reliable estimate of national research and development spending that draws together information on research and development spending in the public and private sectors: business enterprises, government, higher education, private non-profit.