ANBERD | analytical business enterprise research and development |
ARRA | American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 |
BEA |
Bureau of Economic Analysis |
BRDIS | Business R&D and Innovation Survey |
CCmaps |
conditioned cloropleth maps |
CFDA | Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance |
CNSTAT | Committee on National Statistics |
DoD |
U.S. Department of Defense |
EU |
European Union |
FFRDCs |
federally funded research and development centers |
FTE | full-time equivalent |
GBAORD |
government budget appropriations or outlays on R&D |
GDP | gross domestic product |
GERD | gross domestic expenditure on R&D |
GOVERD | government expenditure on R&D |
GREG | generalized regression estimator |
HERD |
Higher Education Research and Development Survey |
IRIS | Industrial Research and Development Information System |
IRS | Internal Revenue Service |
MSTI |
main science and technology indicators database |
NAICS |
North American Industry Classification System |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NCSES | National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics |
NCSS | National Center for Charitable Statistics |
NRC | National Research Council |
NSF | National Science Foundation |
ONS |
Office of National Statistics |
OSTP | White House Office of Science and Technology Policy |
R&D |
research and development |
RDS | research and development statistics |
SEC |
Security and Exchange Commission |
SESTAT | Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System |
SIPP | Survey of Income and Program Participation |
SIRD | Survey of Industrial R&D |
SPREE | structure preserving estimator |
STAR METRICS | Science and Technology for America’s Reinvestment: Measuring the Effects of Research on Innovation, Competitiveness and Science |
STI | science, technology, and innovation |
UNESCO |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
USDA | U.S. Department of Agriculture |
WebCASPAR |
Integrated Science and Engineering Resource Data System |
XBRL |
extensible business reporting language |
XML | extensible markup language |