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Abstract #300364

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Activity Number: 138
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Monday, August 9, 2004 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Government Statistics
Abstract - #300364
Title: Improving the Measurement of Research and Development in the United States
Author(s): Lawrence D. Brown*+
Companies: University of Pennsylvania
Address: Statistics Dept., Philadelphia, PA, 19104,
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The National Science Foundation's Statistical Resources Division conducts a portfolio of surveys and censuses that measure expenditures on Research and Development in the U.S. economy. A National Academy of Sciences panel has recently conducted a study of this data collection effort. The talk will summarize the panel's view of this portfolio and present highlights from the report of the panel. Issues to be discussed involve both topics of measurement related to the concepts of research and development, and the uses for R&D data, and issues of statistical methodology and practice in collecting such data. This talk will also introduce concerns that will be covered in more depth by the other speakers in this session.

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