Research and Development Science Fields

1 - Natural sciences and engineering

Natural sciences and engineering consist of disciplines concerned with understanding, exploring, developing or utilizing the natural world. Included are engineering, mathematical and physical sciences.

2 - Social sciences and humanities

Social sciences, humanities and the arts embrace all disciplines involving the study of human actions and conditions and the social, economic and institutional mechanisms affecting humans. Included are such disciplines as anthropology, business administration and commerce, communications, criminology, demography, economics, geography, history, languages, literature and linguistics, law, library science, philosophy, political sciences, psychology, religious studies, social work, sociology, and urban and regional studies.