Australian Bureau of Statistics
Celebrating the International Year of Statistics 2013

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This division covers technology. For the purposes of this classification, technology R&D is defined as the application of science and engineering knowledge to the development of tools and techniques which have wide application in other fields of R&D and/or in society more generally.
It includes:

• biotechnology;
• communications technologies;
• computer hardware; and
• nanotechnology.

1001 Agricultural Biotechnology
1002 Environmental Biotechnology
1003 Industrial Biotechnology
1004 Medical Biotechnology
1005 Communications Technologies
1006 Computer Hardware
1007 Nanotechnology
1099 Other Technology

Exclusions:
a) Mathematics and statistics are included in Division 01 Mathematical Sciences.
b) Photonics, optoelectronics and optical communications are included in Group 0205 Optical Physics.
c) Quantum communication is included in Group 0206 Quantum Physics.
d) Nanochemistry is included in Group 0303 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry.
e) Environmental science is included in Division 05 Environmental Sciences.
f) Improvement of plants and animals through selective breeding is included in Division 07 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences.
g) Information technology not directly associated with computer hardware is included in Division 08 Information and Computing Sciences.
h) Engineering, including aerospace, biomedical and environmental engineering and remote sensing, is included in Division 09 Engineering.
i) Assisted reproduction technologies are included in Group 1114 Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine.
j) Pharmacogenomics is included in Group 1115 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
k) Ethical use of technology is included in Group 2201 Applied Ethics.
l) History and philosophy of technology is included in Group 2202 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields.