Business Enterprise Research and Development in Scotland 2003

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Appendix 1 - Links and Sources

All sources have been designated as National Statistics, except where indicated (not NS).

Basic sources:

Scottish Executive BERD Scotland 2002 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/enterprise/berd02-00.asp

Scottish Executive BERD Scotland 2001 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/enterprise/berd01-00.asp

Scottish Executive BERD Scotland 2000: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/berd-00.asp

ONS first release BERD 2003: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/berd1104.pdf

ONS Economic Trends GERD 2003: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/gde0305.pdf

ONS detailed BERD analysis 2002: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_commerce/MA14_2002.pdf

Not NS:
OECDSTI Scoreboard 2003: http://www1.oecd.org/publications/e-book/92-2003-04-1-7294/

OECD Frascati Manual: http://www.oecd.org/document/6/0,2340,en_2649_201185_33828550_1_1_1_1,00.html

OECD Main Science and Technology Indicators 2003, available from the OECD.

http://www.oecd.org/home/

Not NS:
DTIR&D scoreboard: http://www.innovation.gov.uk/projects/rd_scoreboard/home.asp

DTI Government expenditure on R&D: http://www.ost.gov.uk/setstats/index.htm

DTI regional competitiveness indicators: http://217.154.27.195/sd/rci/index.htm.

Detailed Sources and references:

UK results of the Research and Development survey are published in the ONS publication "Research and Development in the UK - Business Monitor MA14".

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_commerce/MA14_2003.pdf

The ONS first publish the UK data on the Business Monitor then they perform special analysis on the Scottish firms in the survey. The results of the special analysis form the basis of this report and tables comparing it with the UK final results are published in Appendix 3.

Economic Trends article published August 2005 on "Research and Experimental Development ( R&D) Statistics 2003" was the source of data on expenditure and employment data on research and development activity, in particular in the higher education and government sectors. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/articles/economic_trends/ET621_Owen.pdf

Employment data came from 2 different sources: employment by industry came from the Annual Business Inquiry and employment by job type came from the Labour Force Survey.

Population data came from the GRO(Scotland) website

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/library/poptest/03mid-year-estimates/03mid-year-estimates-tables/index.html

Not NS:
Innovation system: Appendix 1 of the 2001 report:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/enterprise/berd01-08.asp.

Research expenditure in the higher education and government sector:

http://www.ost.gov.uk/setstats/3.htm.

Not NS:
Commercialisation activities of universities:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/publications/HEBCI0203/Report

Community Innovation Survey regional results:

http://www.dti.gov.uk/iese/regional_innovationb.pdf

Not NS:
Scottish data on patents and innovation: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/ses2003/ses03-13.asp

Details of the methodology of collecting R&D data are given at: