ICT-RELATED RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL DEVELOPMENT (R&D)
During 2003-04 expenditure on ICT-related R&D was $2,296m, 32% of total business industry R&D expenditure ($7,220m) (table 23.5). In current price terms this expenditure was 2% greater than the level recorded in 2002-03.
Major ICT research fields where R&D expenditure occurred were Computer software ($815m) and Information systems ($707m), 35% and 31% respectively of the total.
The bulk of the ICT-related R&D expenditure was in the Computer services industry ($684m or 30%), followed by the Manufacturing industry ($287m or 13%) and the Telecommunications service industry ($242m or 11%).
A more detailed range of R&D statistics collected by the ABS is presented in the Science and innovation chapter.
23.5 ICT-RELATED R&D EXPENDITURE, By industry grouping - 2003-04
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| Manufacturing | Wholesale
trade | Telecommunication
services | Computer
services | Other n.e.c. | Total |
ICT-related research field | $m | $m | $m | $m | $m | $m |
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Artificial intelligence and signal and
image processing | 5 | 1 | - | 19 | 33 | 58 |
Communication technologies | 91 | 57 | 147 | 20 | 53 | 368 |
Computation theory and mathematics | 3 | - | - | 3 | 42 | 48 |
Computer hardware | 9 | 3 | - | 7 | 9 | 28 |
Computer software | 90 | 77 | 9 | 481 | 158 | 815 |
Data format | 2 | 2 | - | 13 | 45 | 62 |
Information systems | 25 | n.p. | n.p. | 123 | 522 | 707 |
Other information, computing and
communication sciences | 61 | n.p. | n.p. | 18 | 45 | 210 |
Total | 287 | 176 | 242 | 684 | 907 | 2,296 |
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Source: ABS data available on request, Survey of Research and Experimental Development - Business industry. |