System Atlas

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
Establishments by number of employees
  • 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