Successful funding application ANZSRC data

In our Endeavour Fund funding applications, applicants are required to specify the Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC) Fields of Research (FoR) and Socio-Economic Objectives (SEO) research codes that classify their proposed research. 

The FOR classification allows R&D activity to be categorised according to the field of research. In this respect, it is the methodology used in the R&D that is being considered.  The SEO classification allows R&D to be categorised according to the purpose or outcome of the R&D as perceived by the researcher. It consists of discrete economic, social, technological or scientific domains for identifying the principal purposes of the R&D.

Both of these classifications follow a hierarchical structure.

• The FOR classification has 3 hierarchical levels, namely Divisions (at the broadest level), Groups and Fields (at the finest level). The Division represents a broad subject area or research discipline while groups and fields within represent increasingly detailed dissections of these categories. Divisions, Groups and Fields are assigned unique 2-digit; 4-digit; and 6-digit identification (ID) codes respectively.

• SEO is a 4 level hierarchical classification with Sector at the broadest level. While the Sector forms part of the hierarchical structure of the SEO, it is however used only for the grouping of divisions and for publication of R&D data, not for data collection. Divisions, Groups and Objectives form the next three hierarchical levels in the SEO in decreasing order. Divisions, Groups, and Objectives are assigned unique 2-digit, 4-digit and 6-digit identification (ID) codes respectively.

More information is available on our ANZSRC page on this website

Notes

For each successful Endeavour Fund application from 2017, this spreadsheet details:

• The full name of the successful applicant’s Organisation
• The investment process and funding year they applied for funding from
• The start and end date of the funding contract with us (Contract start date and Contract end date)
• The FOR and/or SEO ANZSRC classifications categorising their funded research and the degree to which it applies (ANZSRC Classification Type, ID2 Digit Code, ID2 Description, ID4 Digit Code, ID4 Description, ID6 Digit Code, ID6 Description, MBIE’s SEO Sector and Operational descriptions*)

*To enable analysis of where investments sit across the portfolio, ANZSRC SEO Sector classifications have been grouped according to the following six-digit codes (where ‘X’ can be any number) and these groupings are represented in the ‘MBIE sector description’ and ‘MBIE operational description’ columns.

• The remaining columns are not contract specific; they show the overall split of Endeavour funding by reporting year across the FOR/SEO classifications.
• Data from funding rounds that used the 2008 ANZSRC codes has been mapped to the latest 2020 ANZSRC codes using the translations supplied by the 2020 ANZSRC working group.
• By default, all ANZSRC code information will be released. However, some ANZSRC codes could be considered sensitive and could lead to the prejudice and/or safety of the person(s) and/or organisation(s) that submitted the data. If you require MBIE to mask or remove these sensitive codes, please contact your MBIE Investment Manager.