ICT-RELATED RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL DEVELOPMENT (R&D)
During 2003-04 expenditure on ICT-related R&D was $2,296m, 32% of total business sector R&D expenditure ($7,220m). In current price terms this expenditure was 2% greater than the level recorded in 2002-03 (table 23.10).
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 grouping ($684m or 30%), followed by the Manufacturing industry grouping ($287m or 13%) and the Telecommunications service industry grouping ($242m or 11%).
A more detailed range of R&D statistics collected by the ABS is presented in the Science and innovation chapter.
23.10 R&D EXPENDITURE, By ICT-related research fields, and industry grouping
|
 | Manufacturing | Wholesale
trade | Tele-
communication
services | Computer
services | Other n.e.c. | Total |
| ICT-related research field | $m | $m | $m | $m | $m | $m |
|
2002-03 |
|
| Artificial intelligence and signal and image processing | 8 | 1 | - | 16 | 25 | 50 |
| Communication technologies | 88 | n.p. | 251 | n.p. | 49 | 462 |
| Computation theory and mathematics | 4 | n.p. | - | 3 | n.p. | 54 |
| Computer hardware | 6 | - | n.p. | n.p. | 9 | 22 |
| Computer software | 99 | 80 | 6 | 379 | 156 | 720 |
| Data format | 2 | 1 | - | 10 | 14 | 27 |
| Information systems | 16 | 9 | 58 | 117 | 511 | 711 |
| Other information, computing and communication sciences | 46 | 38 | n.p. | 38 | n.p. | 210 |
| Total | 270 | 183 | 377 | 590 | 837 | 2,257 |
|
2003-04 |
|
| 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 |
|
| Source: ABS data available on request, Survey of Research and Experimental Development - Business Sector. |
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