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According to internationally co... July 23, 2025 ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20257 Analysis | InfoBrief Impact of the 2024 GSS Institutional Eligibility Review on Counts of GSS Master’s Students In preparation for the 2024 Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering (GSS), a comprehensive eligibility review was conducted of institutions in the 2023 GSS with six or fewer organizational units. The eligibility review was focused on identifying whether instituti... July 16, 2025 ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf25346 Analysis | InfoBrief Relationship Between Product Innovation and Business Owner Demographics Varies by Industry Of the 4.9 million for-profit U.S. businesses with at least one employee, 9.0% introduced a product innovation during 2018–20. Rates vary by demographic characteristics of business owners, such as sex, minority status, and place of birth. These differences may be explained in part by varying rate... July 15, 2025 ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf25343 Analysis | InfoBrief Relationships Between Business Owner Age, Education, and Experience and Product Innovation U.S. businesses with younger owners reported product innovation at higher rates than did businesses with older owners in 2020. The estimated share of businesses that introduced a product innovation during 2018–20 was 15.0% for businesses majority-owned by persons under 25 years of age, compared w... July 15, 2025 ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf25342 Analysis | InfoChart Since the 1950s, Over Half of R&D Expenditures at U.S. Colleges and Universities Have Been Funded by the Federal Government Since the 1950s, over half of R&D expenditures at U.S. colleges and universities have been funded by the federal government, with the share of institution funding increasing to a fourth of the total in recent years. Data are from the Higher Education Research and Development Survey, conducted by ... July 10, 2025 ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf25345 Analysis | InfoChart U.S. R&D-to-GDP Ratio Reached 3.43% in 2022, Driven by Experimental Development The ratio of U.S. research and development (R&D) to gross domestic product (GDP) reached 3.43% in 2022. An increase in the R&D-to-GDP ratio from 2010 to 2022 can primarily be attributed to experimental development, which comprised 67% of total U.S. R&D in 2022. Basic research comprised 15% of tot... July 08, 2025 ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf25335 Analysis | InfoBrief Geographic Distribution of Business R&D Performance in 2021 From 2001 to 2021, expenditures for research and development (R&D) performed by for-profit businesses in the United States doubled. Over half of the growth in U.S. business R&D over this period can be attributed to 2 states: California and Washington. In 2001, the 10 largest states in terms of bu... July 01, 2025 ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf25340 Analysis | InfoChart Since the 1950s, Federal R&D Funding Has Shifted from Development to Research Between FY 1956 and FY 2024, the share of federal obligations for research, including both basic and applied research, increased from 26% to 49% of the federal government’s total of research and development (R&D) and R&D plant, whereas the share for development decreased from 65% to 48%. During t... June 18, 2025 ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf25344 Analysis | InfoBrief In FY 2023, Federal Science and Engineering Support for Higher Education Totaled $49 Billion; Federal R&D to Nonprofits Totaled $12 Billion In FY 2023, federal agency obligations to universities and colleges for science and engineering (S&E) activities increased 9.7% from FY 2022 to a historical high of nearly $49 billion. S&E activities include research and experimental development (R&D); R&D plant; facilities and equipment for inst... June 02, 2025 ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf25341 Survey Survey of Federal Science and Engineering Support to Universities, Colleges, and Nonprofit Institutions 2023 June 02, 2025 surveys/federal-support-survey/2023 1 ⋯ 2 3 ⋯ 127 Next