2007 R&D Satellite Account Methodologies: Current-dollar GDP Estimates. Bureau of Economic Analysis/National Science Foundation R&D Satellite Account Background Paper

摘要

This paper is part of a series of methodological papers released on the BEA web site documenting the 2007 R&D satellite account and the treatment of certain keys issues. It is organized as follows. Section 1 provides an overview of the current treatment of R&D in the national economic accounts and discusses how changing the accounting treatment of R&D investment affects GDP. It also includes the methodology for avoiding a doublecount in software investment. Section 2 addresses the nature of R&D as investment and discusses the funding vs. performance of R&D. Section 3 provides an overview of the adjustments to the source data that are needed to create an unduplicated measure of R&D investment consistent with the national income and product accounts (NIPAs). Section 4 provides an overview of the cost detail and prices used. Section 5 presents the methodologies used to prepare estimates of current dollar output of R&D by performer.