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Total Research and Development Expenditure, Annual

A*STAR (Agency For Science, Technology and Research)

To collect data that provide useful indication on the scale and direction of R&D in Singapore. This will facilitate the development of national science and technology policies and programmes, which will benefit the whole R&D community. For more information, please refer to https://www.a-star.edu.sg/News-and-Events/publications

Data from Jan 1990 to Dec 2018

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

R&D expenditure

Data explorer

TotalResearchandDevelopmentExpenditureAnnual.csv (29 rows, 388 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Rnd expenditure
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
1990571.7
1991756.8
1992949.54
1993997.93
19941174.98
19951366.56
19961792.14
19972104.56
19982492.26
19992656.3
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_65551aa4b1480e4845a1cd1d30c51529"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Agency For Science, Technology and Research. (2015). Total Research and Development Expenditure, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_65551aa4b1480e4845a1cd1d30c51529/view

About this dataset

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Created on

08 Jul 2015

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

A*STAR (Agency For Science, Technology and Research)