The survey on research and experimental development (R&D survey) is a biennial census survey performed on odd calendar years in all economic sectors and is based on the R&D statistics regulation.
The objective of the survey is to measure R&D expenditures and personnel, the financing as well as the nature and orientation of R&D activities. Breakdowns of the results are available by major fields of science, type of expenditure, source of funds, function and type of R&D. Methodological background is the Frascati Manual.
The government sector comprises federal, provincial and local government institutions, institutions of the chambers and the institutions of the social insurance system. Furthermore institutes of the Ludwig Boltzmann-Gesellschaft, the Austrian Academy of Sciences as well as non-profit institutions (NPIs) controlled by the government. The private non-profit sector comprises all other NPIs.