Public support for R&D

Name: Public support for R&D
Topic: Technology and innovation

Division for R&D, Technology and Business Dynamics

National and regional level.

Annually.

The Statistics are published after data from related statistics are released. Publication takes place twice a year; 6 months after the end of the reference year with preliminary numbers and 10 months after the end of the reference year with final numbers.

Data on Government budget allocations for R&D are reported annually to the OECD and Eurostat.

Micro data, information about sampling units and population are permanently stored in SAS Programming Language and permanently stored as text files.

The database is produced on commission from The Ministry of Trade and Fisheries. The purpose with the database is to monitor the public support to national R&D and innovation activity in the business sector and provide information about the recipients of public support.

Important users are public administration, researchers, consultants and business organizations.

No external users have access to the statistics and analyses before they are published and accessible simultaneously for all users on ssb.no at 08 am. Prior to this dae, a minimum of three months' advance notice is given in the Statistics Release Calendar.

Public support for R&D uses data from the Central Register of Establishments and enterprises

https://www.ssb.no/en/virksomheter-foretak-og-regnskap?de=Establishments+and+enterprises.

This Statistics is not mandated by law.

The Business Enterprise sector.

The public agencies covered by the statistics are listed here: https://www.ssb.no/klass/klassifikasjoner/402

Government budget allocations for R&D: Data on allocations for research and development (R&D) are based on a document analysis of the annual national budgets. Drawing on the most recent R&D survey, we estimate what share of the allocations under relevant budget chapters and items in the national budget will be directed toward R&D activities. This basis may be supplemented with information from ministries and other sources.

The analysis is intended to provide information of government funding of R&D at an early stage. At the same time, there is greater uncertainty associated with these data than with data from the R&D statistics, which measure the actual resources allocated to R&D after the activity has been carried out. In accordance with international guidelines, only cash allocations are included in the national budget analysis. If the information basis changes, data may be revised retrospectively.

Data for public R&D support are collected from different public agencies and structured into the database for Pubic support for business R&D. Reporting to this database is not mandatory by law, but takes place on a voluntary basis.

Due to confidentiality of the personal data the database does not include individual enterprises and agricultural sector where the farmers are main recipients of the public support in Norway.

Enterprise data are collected from the Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises.

Individual enterprises cannot be identified.

The first surveys of R&D started back in 1963, from 1970 onwards in a systematic way. The statistics have been worked out on bi-annual basis since 1977, but is undertaken annually from 2001 onwards. The first surveys covered only manufacturing industry, but the service industries have gradually been included. Statistics Norway is responsible for the survey for the Business enterprise sector from 1991 onwards. In 1995 the survey was considerably extended.

From 1991 the statistical unit was the kind-of-activity unit. For 2001 this was changed to enterprise as the main statistical unit, but with a breakdown of the main variables to local kind-of-activity unit.

From 2008 a new version of the industry classification (SN2007) was implemented making it more difficult to compare with former vintages. Results from 2007 are published both by the old and the new classification, while former vintages only are published by the old classification (SN2002).

The data sources for the statistics are administrative registers. Outdated information resulting from time-lag in the registers may be a source of error.