Table 12.1
Estimates of research and development expenditures
in the higher education sector, 2008/2009
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| Total expenditures | Share of total | Source of funds | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federal government | Provincial governments | Business enterprise | Higher education | Private non-profit organizations | Foreign | |||
| millions of dollars | percent | |||||||
| Total | 10,931.9 | 100.0 | 25.7 | 10.1 | 8.2 | 46.3 | 8.7 | 1.0 |
| Social sciences and humanities 1 | 2,215.5 | 20.3 | 21.2 | 10.0 | 1.6 | 59.3 | 7.9 | 0.0 |
| Health sciences 2 | 4,379.4 | 40.1 | 24.5 | 7.6 | 8.8 | 44.5 | 13.7 | 1.0 |
| Other natural sciences and engineering 3 | 4,337.0 | 39.7 | 29.3 | 12.7 | 10.9 | 41.4 | 4.1 | 1.6 |
Social sciences and humanities embrace all
disciplines involving the study of human actions and conditions and the social,
economic and institutional mechanisms affecting humans. Included are such
disciplines as anthropology, business administration and commerce, communications,
criminology, demography, economics, geography, history, languages, literature
and linguistics, law, library science, philosophy, political sciences, psychology,
religious studies, social work, sociology, and urban and regional studies.
Health sciences consist of programmes directed
towards the protection and improvement of human health.
Other natural sciences and engineering consist
of disciplines, other than health sciences, concerned with understanding,
exploring, developing or utilizing the natural world. Included are the engineering,
mathematical and physical sciences.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Business Special Surveys and Technology Statistics
Division, 2010, Science Statistics, Catalogue no.
88-001-X, Vol. 34, no. 5.
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