BUSINESS HUMAN RESOURCES DEVOTED TO R&D


INDUSTRY

In 2007-08, Manufacturing and Professional, scientific and technical services were the main contributors to total human resources devoted to R&D, at 37% and 27% respectively.

Financial and insurance services recorded the largest increase in human resources devoted to R&D from 2006-07, up 792 person years of effort (PYE), followed by Manufacturing and Construction (up 553 PYE and 550 PYE respectively).

EMPLOYMENT SIZE

Businesses with 200 or more employees accounted for 27,700 PYE (56%) of total human resources devoted to R&D in 2007-08, while those with 0-4 employees contributed 1,436 PYE (3%). Businesses with 5-19 employees and 0-4 employees recorded the largest growth in PYE from 2006-07, at 9% and 8% respectively.


TYPE OF RESOURCE

Researchers continued to be the main type of human resource devoted to R&D (52% of total PYE) in 2007-08. Technicians reported the largest absolute growth from 2006-07 (up 1,098 PYE).


FOREIGN OWNERSHIP

In 2007-08, as for business expenditure on R&D, wholly Australian owned businesses made the largest contribution to human resource effort at 25,587 PYE, while businesses with Greater than 50% foreign ownership contributed the largest increase in human resource effort devoted to R&D (up 1,639 PYE) from 2006-07.

Business human resources devoted to R&D, by level of foreign ownership(a)
	2006-07	2007-08
	PYE	PYE
Wholly Australian owned (0%)	23 950	25 587
Greater than 0% and less than 10%	2 472	2 577
10% to 50%	4 843	4 249
Greater than 50%	15 062	16 701
Total	46 327	49 114
(a) A definition of foreign ownership was not provided to survey respondents and data were accepted as reported.