Measuring R&D personnel & expenditure

Launch Workshop of the Qatar R&D Survey: s4&5Four Seasons Hotel, Doha, Qatar

28 to 30 October 20123

Michael Kahn Research and Innovation Associates, South Africa

• Government research institutes – census• Universities - census; split by Qatari and Foreign • Business (including private non-profit) - purposive • Development of Business register of R&D performers, by

National and Foreign categories. • Stock exchange & Annual reports• Media search• Registers of grants• Chamber of Commerce, Industry associations and referrals• Research permit registers - Clinical trials; GM trials

• Personnel split by Qatari and Foreign status.

Methodology

• As this is the first R&D Survey, data may not be readily available in compiled form.

• There may also be concerns at releasing data that is felt to contain ‘company secrets’

• Only high-level information is sought• Contact point for Department-based Research

Institutes (DBRIs) will be the senior civil servant such as the Director-General

• Contact point for public research institutes (PRIs) is the Chief Executive Officer or executive responsible for research management

• Unique identifier for each respondent. • Available by post, by e-mail, online, & direct contact.• Administered by QSA enumerators/analysts • Survey will go live 3 November 2013 • Survey period:• Government: 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013• Business: financial year closest to Government• Universities: Academic Year 2012 to 2013

• CEO of each responding institution to sign off the completed questionnaire.

• R&D in the private not-for-profit (PNP) sector presents measurement challenges similar to those found in the for-profit business sector. Who does R&D; what counts as R&D; what is their legal status?

• PNPs may domestically owned, or foreign-owned. Their fields of activity are wide, ranging from health to environmental monitoring and protection. They may be channels of considerable funds for in-house as well as contract R&D.

• Foreign-owned Universities and PNPs present other issues. Professional staff may be paid abroad; R&D may be reported abroad.

Questionnaires follow common format

English and Arabic

R&D PERSONNEL • Headcount (HC) by Occupational Class• Researchers; Technicians; Other• Gender, Nationality (Qatari and Foreign), Highest

qualification, and Field of Science• Full-time equivalent (FTE) by Occupational Class• Researchers; Technicians; Other• Gender, Nationality (Qatar and Expatriate),

Highest qualification, and Field of Science• HE only: Doctoral and Post docs (as above)

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Exercise 2: R&D Personnel

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IN-HOUSE R&D EXPENDITURE

• Capture actual expenditure, not budgets• Expenditure = Labour + Other Current + Capex • Other Current: space charges, utilities, supplies, spare

parts, STS services• Capex in year of expenditure; not depreciated• Three sector totals:• Government expenditure on R&D

GOVERD• Business expenditure on R&D

BERD• Higher education expenditure on R&D

HERD• Gross expenditure on R&D

GERD• Calculate the sentinel indicator

GERD/GDP

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Exercise 3: R&D Expenditure

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End of Day 2