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Businesses with less than 10 employees devoted 42% of their total employment to research, although this only contributed 7% of the total resources undertaking R&D. Using small business definitions, small businesses contributed 29% of human resources to R&D in manufacturing and 21% in other industries.
Table 2: Human resources devoted to R&D by size of business(1997-98)
| Total Person years | Less than 10 Person years | 10-19 Person years | 20-49 Person years | 50-99 Person years | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mining | 947 | 13 | 42 | 54 | 13 |
| Manufacturing | 13656 | 532 | 805 | 1251 | 1315 |
| Others | 9817 | 1130 | 1099 | 1726 | 1396 |
| Total all industries | 24420 | 1675 | 1946 | 3031 | 2723 |
Note: Employment size is based on the numbers of persons employed by the business, whereas human resources data are person years of R&D effort.
Source: ABS Research & Experimental Development Businesses: 8104.0 (1997-98)