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Business Enterprise Research and Development in Scotland 2002

TABLE 18
EXPENDITURE ON R&D PERFORMED IN SCOTTISH BUSINESSES BY BUSINESS AGE
BROAD PRODUCT GROUPS, 2002

thousand

Scotland

Age of Business

TOTAL

0-3 years

4 to 9 years

10 years or more

Manufacturing: Total

551 625

..

..

514 305

Chemicals

246 824

-

24 658

222 166

Mechanical engineering

57 373

..

..

55 855

Electrical machinery

141 435

773

3 930

136 732

Transport equipment & aerospace

13 165

-

1 199

11 967

Other manufactured products

92 827

76

5 165

87 585

Services

69 849

6 403

24 792

38 655

Other: Total

18 599

..

..

16 448

Agriculture, hunting & forestry; Fishing

547

..

-

..

Extractive industries

15 126

..

314

..

Electricity, gas & water supply

..

-

..

-

Construction

..

-

..

..

GRAND TOTAL

640 073

7 374

63 292

569 408

Source: Office for National Statistics

1 - denotes nil, figures unavailable or too small to display
2 .. denotes disclosive value
3 Transport equipment and Aerospace have been combined to prevent disclosive data

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