National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs 
Research and Development Data Needs 
Proceedings of a Workshop

This report contains the proceedings of a one-day workshop organized by the National Research Councils Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), in conjunction with a study by a panel of the NRC Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT). This combined activity was commissioned by the Science Resources Statistics Division (SRS) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to recommend improvements in the Foundations portfolio of surveys of research and development spending by the federal government, state governments, private industry, the nations universities and colleges, and other nonprofit institutions.