Research and development; expenditure and funding per implementation sector

Research and development; expenditure and funding per implementation sector

Sectors Periods Expenditure on in-house R&D activities Source of financing Businesses (mln euro) Expenditure on in-house R&D activities Source of financing Abroad Businesses abroad (mln euro)
Businesses 2021* 10,643 1,242
Source: CBS.
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This table contains figures regarding expenditure on and financing of Research and Development (R&D) activities that are conducted with own or external personnel. Additionally figures are available regarding expenditure on R&D activities that are outsourced abroad.

The figures are provided for the following sectors:
- businesses
- institutions
- institutes of higher education.

Data available from: 2013

Status of the figures:
The data regarding 2013-2019 are definitive, the data regarding 2020 are revised provisional and the data regarding 2021 are provisional.

Changes as of 7 August 2023:
The figures about 2019 have been adjusted and are definitive. The figures about 2020 have been adjusted and are now revised provisional. Additionally, the provisional figures about 2021 have been published.

When will new figures be published?
In the fourth quarter of 2023 provisional figures about 2022 will be published.

Description topics

Expenditure on in-house R&D activities
Source of financing
Businesses
The actual transactor in the production process, characterised by self-sufficiency with respect to the decisions about that process and by offering its products to third parties.

This definition, in particular the self-sufficiency element, allows for a business to include more than one branch, but also more than one legal entity. This is the case when the separate branches or legal entities do not operate independently. Conversely, various sections may be discerned within a single legal entity, which operate independently in terms of production. On the basis of the definition, then, these sections constitute businesses in themselves. This last point mainly applies to larger concerns with diverse activities. When an entity so defined is active in different countries, for the purposes of national statistics the Dutch section is treated as a self-contained business.

In official Statistics Netherlands terminology, the company as defined here is known as a "business unit" (BU), in order to prevent confusion with the term "business" used in general terminology - which is, for these purposes, too imprecise.

The statistical unit of a business is an approximation of the kind-of-activity unit, as defined by Eurostat. This definition combines two requirements which may be in conflict: contribution to a single activity versus correlation with one or more operational units. When operationalising the statistical unit of a business, the Netherlands prioritises the second requirement.
Abroad
Businesses abroad
Businesses located abroad. These can also be abroad located subsidiaries of a multinational corporation.