North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) Canada 2017 Version 2.0

642 - Research and experimental development services

This group comprises research and experimental development services in natural sciences, engineering and technology, medical and health sciences, agricultural and veterinary sciences, social sciences, and humanities and the arts. Research and experimental development (R&D) comprise creative and systemic work undertaken in order to increase the stock of knowledge - including knowledge of humankind, culture and society - and to devise new applications of available knowledge. The term R&D refers to three types of activity: basic research, applied research and experimental development. Basic research refers to experimental or theoretical work undertaken primarly to acquire new knowledge of the underlying foundations of phenomena and observable facts, without any particular application or use in view. Applied research refers to original investigation undertaken in order to acquire new knowledge. It is, however, directed primarly towards a specific, pratical aim or objective. Experimental development is systematic work, drawing on knowledge gained from research and practical experience and producing additional knowledge, which is directed to producing new products or processes or to improving existing products or processes.

64232 - Research and experimental developmental services in engineering and technology

This class comprises research and experimental development services in engineering and technology. Engineering and technology refers to scientific disciplines concerned with understanding, exploring or developing the natural world. Research services consist of systematic investigation carried by means of experiment or analysis to achieve a scientific or technological advance such as acquiring new knowledge of the underlying foundation of phenomena and observable facts. Experimental development services consist of new or substantially improved goods, services, systems, methods or processes.

642329 - Research and experimental developmental services in nanotechnology and other engineering and technologies

This subclass comprises research services in disciplines concerned with understanding, exploring or developing the natural world such as nanotechnology and other engineering and technologies. Research services consist of systematic investigation carried by means of experiment or analysis to achieve a scientific or technological advance such as acquiring new knowledge of the underlying foundation of phenomena and observable facts. Experimental development services consist of new or substantially improved goods, services, systems, methods or processes.

6423291 - Research and experimental developmental services in nanotechnology

Research and experimental developmental services in disciplines concerned with understanding, exploring or developing the natural world such as nanotechnology. Research services consist of systematic investigation carried by means of experiment or analysis to achieve a scientific or technological advance such as acquiring new knowledge of the underlying foundation of phenomena and observable facts. Experimental development services consist of new or substantially improved goods, services, systems, methods or processes.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • research and experimental development services in environmental nanotechnology
  • research and experimental development services in molecular and organic electronics
  • research and experimental development services in nanobiotechnology
  • research and experimental development services in nanoelectromechanical systems
  • research and experimental development services in nanoelectronics
  • research and experimental development services in nanomanufacturing
  • research and experimental development services in nanomaterials
  • research and experimental development services in nanomedicine
  • research and experimental development services in nanometrology
  • research and experimental development services in nanophotonics
  • research and experimental development services in nanoscale characterisation
  • research and experimental development services in nanotoxicology, health and safety

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6423292 - Research and experimental developmental services in other engineering and technologies

Research and experimental developmental services in disciplines concerned with understanding, exploring or developing the natural world such as other engineering and technologies. Research services consist of systematic investigation carried by means of experiment or analysis to achieve a scientific or technological advance such as acquiring new knowledge of the underlying foundation of phenomena and observable facts. Experimental development services consist of new or substantially improved goods, services, systems, methods or processes.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • research and experimental development services in agricultural engineering
  • research and experimental development services in computational fluid dynamics
  • research and experimental development services in computational heat transfer
  • research and experimental development services in engineering practice
  • research and experimental development services in fluidisation and fluid mechanics
  • research and experimental development services in heat and mass transfer operations
  • research and experimental development services in nuclear engineering (including fuel enrichment and waste processing and storage)
  • research and experimental development services in turbulent flows

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• Exclusion(s)

  • earthquake engineering (See 6423211 Research and experimental developmental services in civil engineering)
  • food engineering (See 6423441 Research and experimental developmental services in agricultural biotechnology (including food sciences))