This data set contains data on the R&D expenditure by province, type of R&D, research fields, socioeconomic objectives, sources of funds and province. R&D personnel data is also included. The data is recorded for each of the following economic sectors of the South African economy: Business, Government, Higher Education, Not-for-Profit Organisations and Science Councils. Subsequent to the dissemination of version 1 of the 2013-14 data files, some of the information has been anonymised and the revised data files are disseminated as Version 2.