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Useful Stats: Industrial R&D Per Capita: 1997-1999
Industrial R&D intensity, or measuring industrial research and development expenditures as a proportion of Gross State Product, is just one method to standardize the data for comparison across states (see the April 12, 2002 edition of the SSTI Weekly Digest). Reviewing a state's expenditures on the basis of its population is another technique.
SSTI has prepared a table presenting industrial R&D per capita values and rankings for 1997-1999 for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The table reveals different results in rankings than industrial R&D intensity for many states. The top five states for industrial per capita in 1999 were Michigan, Delaware, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Washington.
Data for the table was obtained from the Census Bureau estimates and the National Science Foundation's Survey of Industrial Research and Development: 1999, which is available at: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf02312/htmstart.htm