| Table 5-4 | ||||||||||
| Top six federal agencies’ shares of federally funded academic R&D expenditures: FYs 2003–12 | ||||||||||
| (Percent) | ||||||||||
| Agency | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health and Human Services | 44.3 | 51.8 | 55.8 | 56.7 | 56.1 | 56.0 | 55.4 | 57.3 | 57.4 | 55.6 |
| National Science Foundation | 9.9 | 11.7 | 12.1 | 11.9 | 11.7 | 12.1 | 12.1 | 12.5 | 12.5 | 13.0 |
| Department of Defense | 8.2 | 9.0 | 8.9 | 9.2 | 9.1 | 9.8 | 10.4 | 12.1 | 12.0 | 12.4 |
| Department of Energy | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 4.7 | 5.0 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 3.8 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 3.4 |
| Department of Agriculture | 2.6 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.8 |
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NOTE: Health and Human Services includes primarily the National Institutes of Health. SOURCE: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, special tabulations (2013) of the Higher Education Research and Development Survey. Science and Engineering Indicators 2014 |
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