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.

64241 - Research and experimental developmental services in social sciences

This class comprises research and experimental development services in social sciences. Social sciences refers to disciplines concerned with the study of human actions and conditions and the social, economic and institutional mechanisms affecting humans. 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.

642417 - Research and experimental developmental services in social and economic geography

This subclass comprises research and experimental services in disciplines concerned with the study of human actions and conditions and the social, economic and institutional mechanisms affecting humans such as social and economic geography. 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.

6424171 - Research and experimental developmental services in social and economic geography

Research and experimental developmental services in disciplines concerned with the study of human actions and conditions and the social, economic and institutional mechanisms affecting humans such as social and economic geography. 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 behavioral geography
  • research and experimental development services in geographic information science
  • research and experimental development services in health geography
  • research and experimental development services in history and theory of the built environment (except architecture)
  • research and experimental development services in housing markets, development, management
  • research and experimental development services in human geography
  • research and experimental development services in land use and environmental planning
  • research and experimental development services in political geography
  • research and experimental development services in recreation, leisure and tourism geography
  • research and experimental development services in transportation geography
  • research and experimental development services in urban analysis and development
  • research and experimental development services in urban and regional planning

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