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Useful Stats: 1999 Federal R&D Obligations by State
The National Science Foundation has released Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 1999, 2000, and 2001, Vol. 49, presenting 111 detailed statistical tables.
Tables 56-79 characterize federal R&D and R&D plant obligations at universities & colleges by basic versus applied research, by agency and by field of science for 1999, 2000 and 2001. Tables 82-87 present the 1999 data by geographic distribution (by state). This data can be standardized by population for interpretation.
To present a different, perhaps more meaningful, perspective on the distribution across states, SSTI has prepared a table which provides the 1999 federal R&D and R&D plant obligations as an average per employed doctoral scientist and engineer in the state. The untested hypothesis is that R&D obligations would be a function more of the availability of an appropriately skilled labor pool to conduct research, rather than the total population.
The table presents per capita federal R&D obligations by state as well for comparison: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/072001t.htm
The full NSF statistical report, Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 1999, 2000, and 2001, Vol. 49 is available at http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf01328/start.htm