HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES DEVOTED TO RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL DEVELOPMENT (R&D)

During the 2014 calendar year, higher education expenditure on R&D (HERD) was $10,145 million. This represents an increase of $535 million (6%) from $9,610 million in 2012.

HIGHER EDUCATION EXPENDITURE ON R&D, summary statistics: values and proportions
			EXPENDITURE ON R&D		PROPORTION OF TOTAL EXPENDITURE ON R&D
			2012	2014	2012	2014
			$m	$m	%	%
Type of expenditure
	Capital expenditure
		Land, buildings and other structures	732	549	7.6	5.4
		Other capital expenditure	299	283	3.1	2.8
		Total(a)	1 031	832	10.7	8.2
	Current expenditure
		Labour costs	3 890	4 310	40.5	42.5
		Scholarships	609	737	6.3	7.3
		Other current expenditure	4 079	4 266	42.5	42.0
		Total(a)	8 579	9 313	89.3	91.8
Total expenditure on R&D(a)			9 610	10 145	100.0	100.0
(a) Where figures have been rounded, discrepancies may occur between the sum of the component items and totals.

In 2014, HERD showed an increase of 6% in current price terms from 2012, and 0.1% in chain volume terms.

HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES DEVOTED TO R&D
			2004	2006	2008	2010	2012	2014
Expenditure on R&D
	Current prices	$m	4 327	5 434	6 844	8 161	9 610	10 145
	Chain volume measures(a)	$m	6 099	7 104	8 281	9 141	10 132	10 145
Human resources devoted to R&D		PYE	55 204	58 905	61 773	69 392	74 669	78 038
(a) The reference year for chain volume measures is 2014. See Explanatory Notes for details.

Subsequent expenditure figures and supporting commentary relate to current price terms.


HERD and Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

HERD as a proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) stayed the same for 2012 and 2014 at 0.63%.



Human resources devoted to R&D by Australian higher education institutions totalled 78,038 person years of effort (PYE) in 2014. This is an increase of 3,369 PYE (5%) from 74,669 PYE in 2012.

HIGHER EDUCATION HUMAN RESOURCES DEVOTED TO R&D, summary statistics: values and proportions
	HUMAN RESOURCES DEVOTED TO R&D			PROPORTIONS OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVOTED TO R&D
		2012	2014	2012	2014
		PYE	PYE	%	%
Type of resources
	Academic staff Other staff Postgraduate students	23 305 8 897 42 467	23 710 9 510 44 819	31.2 11.9 56.9	30.4 12.2 57.4
Total human resource devoted to R&D(a)		74 669	78 038	100.0	100.0
(a) Where figures have been rounded, discrepancies may occur between the sum of the component items and totals.