U.S. Private Sector R&D Spending
U.S. R&D Spending in Selected Sectors
R&D Spending as a Perecent of GDP in Selected Countries
U.S. R&D Spending vs. Emerging Markets
U.S. Federal R&D Spending in Engineering and Science
U.S. Federal R&D Spending in Selected Science Fields
Percentage of U.S. Patent Awards to U.S. Companies
While total U.S. industry domestic R&D was 3.2 percent of domestic net sales during 2011, the manufacturing ratio was 3.9 percent, well above the 2.3 percent average for nonmanufacturing industries. The well-known “spillover” impacts from productive innovation investment, where the direct and indirect benefits of new products and ideas spread from industry to industry, testify to the economy-wide benefit of the R&D-intensive manufacturing sector.