Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in conducting research and experimental development (except nanotechnology and biotechnology research and experimental development) in the physical, engineering, and life sciences, such as agriculture, electronics, environmental, biology, botany, computers,… It has no schema of its own: companies here are mapped on the Professional services schema, and what it does not cover is recorded as gaps.
- Baseline
- Professional services v2
- Inherited from
- Professional services
- Mapped on the schema
- 0 of 28 placed here
- Primitives
- 57 in 8 parts
- Last updated
- Nov 2, 2026
The numbers for this industry
United States · 2023 · NAICS 541715- Establishments
- 12,929
- Employees
- 596,332
- Annual payroll
- $88.2B
- Payroll per employee
- $147.9K
- 1-46,569
- 5-91,909
- 10-191,471
- 1000+82
- 20-491,369
- 50-99647
- 100-249570
- 250-499221
- 500-99991
Source: US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (national file), employees as of mid-March 2023, payroll for the year; published 2025-06-26. Coded on NAICS 2017. Withheld cells read as not published.
What the registry holds here
Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) and below · public parts only- With public findings
- 28
- Public parts
- 58
- Distinct sources
- 58
- Last change
- Nov 2, 2026
Counts of what public research has found and sourced, each part with its source on the organization’s profile. They say what is known, not how much of the industry exists.
Deepen this industry
Focused research on the organizations with the fewest mapped parts in research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences (except nanotechnology and biotechnology); what it finds is public for everyone.
- Société nationale de protection de la nature et d'acclimatation de France1 part
- Unseenlabs1 part
- IFSTTAR1 part
- GenSight Biologics2 parts
- Institut Pasteur de Madagascar2 parts