Data sources: Research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering
What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| geospatial/movement | Operators of research vessels and aircraft (AIS/ADS-B tracks, national marine research fleets), field-campaign coordinators, polar and… | Per vessel/aircraft track point; per field campaign site visit | public |
| registry/licensing/permits | Patent offices (EPO, USPTO, WIPO), clinical trial registries (ClinicalTrials.gov, EU CTIS), grant funders (EU CORDIS, NIH RePORTER… | Per patent application/family, per trial, per grant award, per facility licence | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistics offices (R&D personnel surveys, Frascati/OECD reporting), universities and research institutes' HR systems… | Per-institution headcount FTE by field and occupation, annual; per-researcher… | public |
| financial filings | Listed R&D-intensive firms and CROs (annual reports, R&D spend line items), public research organisations' audited accounts, funders' grant… | Annual per entity; grant-level payment records | public |
| waste & emissions | Research institutes' EHS/waste contractors, hazardous and radioactive waste manifest registries held by environment agencies, campus… | Per waste manifest/consignment; annual per-site totals | public |
| production output | Publishers and indexers (Elsevier/Scopus, Clarivate Web of Science, OpenAlex, Crossref), preprint servers, universities' repositories… | Per publication / preprint / dataset / technical report, with author and… | public |
| quality & compliance testing | Accreditation bodies (national ISO 17025 / GLP monitoring authorities), regulators inspecting labs (FDA, EMA, national GLP inspectorates)… | Per accreditation scope, per inspection, per instrument calibration certificate | public |
| pricing | Core facility rate cards at universities, CRO study price quotes, scientific instrument and reagent distributors (Thermo Fisher, Merck, VWR… | Per service unit / per instrument-hour / per catalogue SKU | purchasable |
| reviews & sentiment | Altmetric/PlumX aggregators, peer-review platforms (Publons/Web of Science reviewer records, journal editorial systems), post-publication… | Per article (mentions, citations, review reports, retraction notices) | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Contract research organisations and testing/engineering R&D service providers (contract and invoice systems), technology transfer offices… | Per contract / per work order / per royalty statement | partnership |
| inventory & supply chain | Institutional chemical inventory and biobank/sample management systems, lab procurement/ERP, distributors of reagents and lab consumables | Per reagent lot / per sample vial / per purchase order | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Laboratory instrument fleets and LIMS/SCADA systems in institutes and corporate labs, cleanroom and cold-storage monitoring vendors… | Per instrument per run; continuous time-series for freezers, cleanrooms, fume… | partnership |
| energy consumption | University estates and institute facility managers, utilities, national display-energy-certificate schemes for public buildings | Per building / per meter, monthly or half-hourly | partnership |
| logistics & freight movement | Specialist life-science and dangerous-goods couriers (World Courier, cold-chain carriers), institutional shipping desks, customs records… | Per shipment with temperature excursion log | partnership |
| incident/safety/claims | Institutional EHS departments, national occupational safety regulators, radiation protection authorities (dosimetry registries), insurers… | Per incident report; per-worker dose readings monthly | partnership |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Core facility and shared-instrument booking systems (PPMS, iLab, Clustermarket), large research infrastructures (synchrotron beamtime… | Per booking slot / per instrument per hour / per proposal-allocated shift | partnership |
| maintenance & asset condition | Instrument OEM service organisations (Thermo, Agilent, Bruker), in-house engineering/facility teams, CMMS vendors | Per asset per service event; uptime logs per instrument | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.