Canadian R&D spending in 2011 is expected to have totaled CAD 29.9 billion ($29.6 billion), which is 2.0% higher than initial 2010 R&D figures but 1.9% less than in 2008. Business enterprise spending is expected to have grown 5.0% to make up 52% of R&D spending. The sector contributed 47% of R&D funding for a 5.6% increase. Higher education R&D spending and funding are estimated to have both grown 1.0% to account for 38% and 18% of each, respectively. The federal government is projected to have spent 9% of R&D expenditures and contributed 20% of R&D funding, for respective decreases of 10.3% and 3.8%. R&D spending and funding by provincial government and research organizations is estimated to have grown 7.2% and 2.7%, respectively, to account for 1% of R&D spending and 5% of R&D funding. Private nonprofit R&D spending is expected to have fallen 5.2% to make up less than 1% of R&D spending, but its funding is estimated to have grown 0.8% to make up 3% of R&D funding. R&D funding from foreign sources is expected to have fallen 1.4% to account for 5% of R&D funding.

Source: Statistics Canada