Last data update: October 2017
Direct link to the ANBERD dataset
Short url: oe.cd/anberd

The OECD’s ANalytical Business Enterprise Research and Development (ANBERD) database presents annual data on Research and Development (R&D) expenditures by industry and was developed to provide analysts with comprehensive data on business R&D expenditures. The ANBERD database incorporates a number of estimations that build upon and extend national submissions of business enterprise R&D data by industry (main activity/industry orientation).

The current version of the ANBERD database presents OECD countries’ and selected non-member economies’ business expenditure on R&D since 1987, broken down across 100 manufacturing and service industry groups.

The reported data follow the International Standard Industrial Classification, Revision 4 (ISIC Rev. 4) and are expressed in national currencies as well as in US dollars at purchasing power parity (PPP), both at current and constant prices.

In addition to the ANBERD dataset, official business enterprise expenditure on R&D (BERD) data submitted to the OECD via the OECD/Eurostat R&D data collection (which is the main underlying source for ANBERD) can be accessed through the OECD Research and Development Statistics (RDS) database.

For further information on ANBERD, including the release calendar for other countries, please contact RDSurvey@oecd.org.

• Full documentation
• Coverage table

Detailed ANBERD data on business R&D expenditure by industry enable analysis and comparison of the way countries’ BERD is distributed across industries. They allow for cross-sectional and time series analyses.  As an illustration, the chart below shows the share of BERD performed by services industries, manufacturing industries, and others in the latest year available and ten years before.

 

 

ANBERD was also conceived to allow business R&D expenditure to be matched with industry performance data of the STructural ANalysis (STAN) Database and related datasets (see http://oe.cd/stan).

 

Classification of industries according to R&D intensity

Using ANBERD data, the OECD has produced a new taxonomy of industries according to their average level of R&D intensity. This work represents an update and reframing of previous OECD taxonomies that were based on earlier versions of the ISIC classification. Industries are clustered into 5 groups (high, medium-high, medium, medium-low, and low R&D intensity industries). One special feature of this new taxonomy is the inclusion of non-manufacturing industries, especially services, whose coverage has improved in the R&D tables collected in ISIC Rev.4.

The report is accessible at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5jlv73sqqp8r-en

This analysis shows that there is considerable potential for many countries to raise their R&D intensity within industries to the current OECD average, as shown in the following graph.

Explore the data used in this analysis.

 

ANBERD versions

	Country coverage	Sector coverage (max)	Time coverage	Next update
ISIC Rev.4	Currently, 32 OECD countries and 4 non-member economies	100 manufacturing and services sectors	1987 onwards	On a rolling basis (country coverage to be extended)
ISIC Rev.3 archived version	32 OECD countries and  6 non-member economies	60 manufacturing and services sectors	1987-2010/11	Discontinued
ISIC Rev.2 archived version	15 OECD countries	34 sectors, predominantly in manufacturing	1973-1997/98	Discontinued

 

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ANBERD belongs to the STAN family databases: STAN Database for Structural Analysis, STAN Bilateral Trade by Industry and End-use category (BTDIxE), STAN Input-Output and STAN Indicators. The STAN databases are united by compatible industry lists based on the ISIC classification.