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GBARD encompass all spending allocations met from sources of government revenue foreseen within the budget, such as taxation. ... Spending allocations by extra-budgetary government entities are within the scope only to the extent that their funds are allocated through the budgetary process. Likewise, R&D funding by public (business) enterprises is outside the scope of GBARD statistics, as it is based on funds raised within the market and outside the budgetary process. Only in the exceptional case of budgetary provisions for R&D to be carried out or distributed from public enterprises should this be counted as part of GBARD.
(Source: OECD (2015), Frascati Manual 2015: Guidelines for Collecting and Reporting Data on Research and Experimental Development)

GDP is a measure of a country’s economic performance over a certain period of time. It measures the value of domestically ... produced goods and services (added value), as long as these are not used as a basis for the production of other goods and services.

Total expenditure on domestically performed R&D, whatever the source; this also includes R&D performed within the country ... and funded from abroad and by international organizations. However, it does not cover the expenditure on R&D performed abroad by international organizations headquartered in the country or R&D funding paid abroad.

All resources allocated to R&D by the Federal Government and the Länder, regardless of the sector in which R&D is performed. ...