Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing R&D intensity
RecordSTO-17HCGJQRHQ-MFY0Q8P3N1-QQDKNA
United States · 2023
Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing R&D intensity in the United States was 17.8% in 2023 (NCSES).
Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing R&D intensity: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- NCSES
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Sales, R&D Intensity, and Employment of Companies That Performed or Funded R&D
- Retrieved
- 17 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Manufacturing industries with high levels of R&D intensity in 2023 were semiconductor and other electronic products (NAICS 3344) (25.8%) and pharmaceuticals and medicines (NAICS 3254) (17.8%).
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APA
National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. (2023). Business R&D Performance in the United States Increases to $722 Billion in 2023. Retrieved September 17, 2026, from https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf25353. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_17HCGJQRHQMFY0Q8P3N1QQDKNA
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- MLA
- National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. "Business R&D Performance in the United States Increases to $722 Billion in 2023." 2023, https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf25353. Accessed 17 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_17HCGJQRHQMFY0Q8P3N1QQDKNA.
- Chicago
- National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. "Business R&D Performance in the United States Increases to $722 Billion in 2023." 2023. https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf25353. Accessed September 17, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_17HCGJQRHQMFY0Q8P3N1QQDKNA.
- BibTeX
- @misc{ncses2023pharmaceuticalqqdkna, author = {{National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics}}, title = {Business R\&D Performance in the United States Increases to \$722 Billion in 2023}, year = {2023}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_17HCGJQRHQMFY0Q8P3N1QQDKNA}, note = {Original source: https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf25353. Accessed September 17, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Business R&D Performance in the United States Increases to $722 Billion in 2023
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Sales, R&D Intensity, and Employment of Companies That Performed or Funded R&D
- Retrieved
- 17 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_17HCGJQRHQMFY0Q8P3N1QQDKNA