HomeHomehttp://www.mercurytech.com.au/home/2011-09-15T05:26:56ZSquarespaceNEW STATISTICS ON R&D IN AUSTRALIAhttp://www.mercurytech.com.au/home/2011/9/15/new-statistics-on-rd-in-australia.htmlMercury Technologies2011-09-15T05:05:42Z2011-09-15T05:05:42ZThe Australian Bureau of Statistics have just released figures outlining expenditure by Australian businesses on Research and Development over 2009/10.  Whilst there was a downward trend in investment from previous years, current trends in 2011 point to a strong turnaround from major corporates.  Encouragingly, the IT field accounted for more than 80% of total Business Expenditure on Research and Development.  See the Source link for more details.

During 2009-10, expenditure on R&D by Australian businesses was $16,685 million. Business expenditure on R&D (BERD) decreased by 3% in current price terms and 5% in chain volume terms, compared to 2008-09. The industry divisions of Manufacturing and Mining continued to be the largest contributors to total BERD in 2009-10, contributing $4,219 million (25%) and $3,695 million (22%), respectively. Financial and insurance services ($2,651 million or 16%) and Professional, scientific and technical services ($2,516 million or 15%) were the next largest contributors.

The research fields of Engineering and Information and computing sciences accounted for more than 80% of total BERD in 2009-10. This was also the case in previous years. Engineering ($8,790 million in 2009-10) had the largest decrease in proportional share of total BERD compared to 2008-09 (down from 55% to 53%). In contrast, over the same period, Information and computing sciences ($4,763 million in 2009-10) had the largest increase in proportional share of total BERD (up from 26% to 28%).

BERD as a proportion of GDP decreased between 2008-09 and 2009-10, down from 1.38% to 1.30%.

Source: Paper 8104.0 - Research and Experimental Development, 2009-10, Australian Bureau of Statistics 

http://www.abs.gov.au

]]>Mercury Technologies Sponsoring ECU/SECAU 2011 Conference Serieshttp://www.mercurytech.com.au/home/2011/9/1/mercury-technologies-sponsoring-ecusecau-2011-conference-ser.htmlMercury Technologies2011-09-01T05:36:00Z2011-09-01T05:36:00ZFollowing the extremely successful inaugural SECAU Cyber Resilience Conference held in July 2010, Mercury Technologies has once again teamed up with Edith Cowan University and SECAU to sponsor the 2nd Cyber Resilience Conference (1-2 August 2011) and the SECAU Security Congress (5-7 December 2011). 

 

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