The visualization shows the distribution of large economic units of the private and parastatal sector of Wholesale Trade of Machinery, Equipment and Furniture for Agricultural, Industrial, Service and Commercial Activities, and other Machinery and Equipment for General Use that employed qualified staff in technological research and development activities in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
According to data from the Economic Census 2019, the lowercase Wholesale Trade of Machinery, Equipment and Furniture for Agricultural, Industrial, Service and Commercial Activities, and other Machinery and Equipment for General Use Subsector had 395 economic units that had qualified staff in technological research and development activities, 39 economic units had it for research and technological development in the field of Biotechnology and 30 economic units for research and technological development in Nanotechnology.
In the same year, 123 economic units had qualified personnel in the registration or processing of patents for brands, products or processes, and 70 economic units had this type of staff to contracts or acquisition of patents for brands, products or processes.