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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

This section answers the most frequently asked questions about the Business R&D and Innovation Survey Other sections answer additional questions about survey coverage and forms. If you don't find answers to all your survey questions, please contact us.

• Survey Content Information
• About Reporting
• About the Survey
• Survey Eligibility
• General Instructions and Survey Definitions
• Foreign-owned Companies
• About the Excel Workbooks

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Survey Content Information

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• Why a New Business R&D and Innovation Survey?
• Summary of Survey Content
• Survey FAQs
• How R&D Data Are Used
• Past NSF publications

Questions and Answers - by Category

• About Reporting
  
  

  1.	Is this survey mandatory?
  2.	Are my responses to this survey confidential?
  3.	Why should my company fill out this form?
  4.	When can I report?
  5.	How long will it take to complete this survey?
  6.	How was my company chosen to receive this survey?
  7.	Are estimates acceptable?
  8.	My company does not keep track of some of the detailed data you are requesting. What should I do?
  9.	What if I lost my form?
  10.	What if I need more time?
  11.	How should I respond if a question or item isn't applicable to my company?

  
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• About the Survey
  
  

  12.	What information does the Business R&D and Innovation Survey Collect?
  13.	Who will use the data from this survey?
  14.	Are there detailed instructions for each survey question?

  
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• Survey Eligibility
  
  

  15.	My company doesn't have any R&D activities. Do I still need to respond?
  16.	My organization is a nonprofit. Do I still need to respond?
  17.	My company is owned by another company. How should I respond?
  18.	My company is no longer in business. How should I respond?

  
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• General Instructions and Survey Definitions
  
  

  19.	What is research & development (R&D)?
  20.	What do I include as "your company" (the reporting unit for this survey)?
  21.	How should we report inter-company transactions?
  22.	What is a grant?
  23.	What is a contract?

  
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• Foreign-owned Companies
  
  

  24.	My company follows International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) rather than U.S. GAAP, can I report on that basis?
  25.	How should I report transactions with my foreign owner on this survey?

  
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• About the Excel Workbooks
  
  

  26.	What are the BRDIS Excel workbooks?
  27.	Do I have to use the Excel workbooks?
  28.	How will the Excel workbooks make completing the BRDIS easier?
  29.	How do I use the BRDIS Excel workbooks?
  30.	What if I need to send a section workbook to more than one part of my company? Is there a way to consolidate/combine information from multiple workbooks for a section?
  31.	What is the BRDIS Excel consolidator?
  32.	How do I use the BRDIS Excel consolidator?
  33.	How do I upload data from the Excel files into the online survey?

  
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