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Institutional research and development sectors

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Definition

In the statistics on the resources devoted to research and development activities, the agents surveyed who finance and/or perform research work are classified into five institutional sectors.

An institutional sector means a set of institutional units which have equivalent economic behaviour. For that purpose, the main economic function and the origin of the resources of the units are used. The legal status is not taken into account as a determining criterion.

The five institutional sectors taken are :

- the State (including Defence) ;
- higher education ;
- non-profit institutions ;
- enterprises ;
- overseas.