Guidelines to Surveys on R&D (Frascati Manual)

Launch Workshop of the Qatar R&D Survey: s3Four Seasons Hotel, Doha, Qatar

28 to 30 October 20123

Michael Kahn Research and Innovation Associates, South Africa

The R&D Survey

• Official project of QSA – covered by the Qatar Statistics Act No 2 of 2011

• Compliant with OECD Frascati Manual guidelines

• Targets performers of in-house R&D

• Captures data on inputs: personnel and finance

• Also seeks basic information on R&D outputs

• Project Duration: November 2013 – October 2014

• Research and experimental development (R&D) comprises creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications.• Basic, applied research, and experimental

development• Natural sciences, technology, social science and

humanities – subject to exclusions• Related Scientific & Technological Activities excluded

What counts as R&D

Excluded

• S&T Education and Training (STET)• S&T Information and Documentation (STID)• Routine S&T Services (STS)

o Testingo Mappingo Surveyso Database management & debuggingo Software developmento Policy-related researcho Monitoring and evaluation

• The services sector is important everywhere, but tends to be neglected in the R&D Surveys of many countries. Services may account for significant levels of R&D e.g. up to 30% of BERD (Australia)

• The growth of mobile telephony semi-monopolies, local banks, insurance and retail chains requires the ability to develop and integrate software solutions.

• Software engineering may involve the construction of unique algorithms that are part of the intangible value of a firm. The development of this intellectual property leads to commercial benefit, and is definable as R&D.

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The application includes definitions,

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