Terms A-Z

The statistics on R&D expenditures are collected both from the funding institutions and from the research institutions (implementation ... perspective). The financing perspective provides information on the financial contributions of the funding providers, that is, from the government, businesses, and private non-profit organizations, typically regardless of the recipient. For the government side, these are primarily budget data (financial statistics). (see also Implementation perspective).

New entrants to higher education are students in their first semester (first enrolment) or in their first semester of a certain ... course of study.

Unit to measure the full-time activity of a person over a certain period. This unit serves to express the working time of ... a person doing part-time R&D work (including part-time workers) as the working time of a full-time R&D worker.

Further training and Meister examinations demonstrate knowledge and skills acquired through further training measures. They ... must comply with the special requirements of vocational adult education.