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Business Enterprise Research and Development Survey 2021

Published by National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics | National Science Foundation | Metadata Last Checked: August 09, 2025 | Last Modified: 2023-09-28
The Business Enterprise Research and Development Survey (BERD) and its immediate predecessors the Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) and the Business Research and Development Survey (BRDS) are collectively referred to as BERD in this overview. BERD is the primary source of information on R&D expenditures and R&D employees of for-profit, publicly or privately held, nonfarm businesses with 10 or more employees in the United States that performed or funded R&D either domestically or abroad. This dataset includes Business Enterprise Research and Development Survey assets for Calender Year 2021.

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