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.