8111.0 - Research and Experimental Development, Higher Education Organisations, Australia, 2014 Quality Declaration 
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 17/05/2016   
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HIGHER EDUCATION HUMAN RESOURCES DEVOTED TO R&D

TYPE OF RESOURCE

Australian higher education institutions devoted a total of 78,038 person years of effort (PYE) to R&D in 2014. This was an increase of 3,369 PYE (5%) from 2012. More than half of the human resources devoted to R&D in 2014 were Postgraduate students (57%) with the remainder being Academic staff (30%) and Other staff supporting R&D (12%). New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland accounted for three quarters (75%) of total human resources devoted to R&D in 2014.

Graph: Higher Education Human Resources Devoted to R&D by location, 2012 and 2014. Human resources are measured in Person Years of Effort (PYE).



Across all states, the profile of Higher Education Human resources devoted to R&D is similar, with Postgraduate students representing the largest PYE, followed by Academic staff then Other staff.

Graph: Higher Education Human Resources Devoted to R&D by location, 2014. Human resources are measured in Person Years of Effort (PYE). Type of Resource includes: Academic Staff, Other Staff and Postgraduate students.