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Research and experimental development, businesses, Australia, 2008-09
Publisher
Business
Economic development
Australia
Description
This release presents summary statistics on R&D undertaken by Australian businesses during the financial year ended 30 June 2009.
During 2008-09, expenditure on R&D by Australian businesses was $16,858 million. Business expenditure on R&D (BERD) increased by 13% in current price terms and 9% in chain volume terms from 2007-08.
Business human resources devoted to R&D in 2008-09 totalled 53,556 person years of effort (PYE), an increase of 5% from 2007-08.
Publication Details
Copyright:
Commonwealth of Australia 2010
Access Rights Type:
open
Post date:
30 Sep 2010
