| ANBERD | analytical business enterprise research and development |
| ARRA | American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 |
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BEA |
Bureau of Economic Analysis |
| BRDIS | Business R&D and Innovation Survey |
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CCmaps |
conditioned cloropleth maps |
| CFDA | Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance |
| CNSTAT | Committee on National Statistics |
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DoD |
U.S. Department of Defense |
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EU |
European Union |
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FFRDCs |
federally funded research and development centers |
| FTE | full-time equivalent |
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GBAORD |
government budget appropriations or outlays on R&D |
| GDP | gross domestic product |
| GERD | gross domestic expenditure on R&D |
| GOVERD | government expenditure on R&D |
| GREG | generalized regression estimator |
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HERD |
Higher Education Research and Development Survey |
| IRIS | Industrial Research and Development Information System |
| IRS | Internal Revenue Service |
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MSTI |
main science and technology indicators database |
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NAICS |
North American Industry Classification System |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NCSES | National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics |
| NCSS | National Center for Charitable Statistics |
| NRC | National Research Council |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
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ONS |
Office of National Statistics |
| OSTP | White House Office of Science and Technology Policy |
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R&D |
research and development |
| RDS | research and development statistics |
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SEC |
Security and Exchange Commission |
| SESTAT | Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System |
| SIPP | Survey of Income and Program Participation |
| SIRD | Survey of Industrial R&D |
| SPREE | structure preserving estimator |
| STAR METRICS | Science and Technology for America’s Reinvestment: Measuring the Effects of Research on Innovation, Competitiveness and Science |
| STI | science, technology, and innovation |
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UNESCO |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| USDA | U.S. Department of Agriculture |
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WebCASPAR |
Integrated Science and Engineering Resource Data System |
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XBRL |
extensible business reporting language |
| XML | extensible markup language |