R&D Industry: An Emerging High-End Service

Along with the development of the externalization of R&D, R&D activities are showing the trend of their industrialization. The paper provides in the first place the definition of the R&D service industry with the discussion of the differences between the R&D service industry and its related industries, such as the cultural industry, the creative industry, the information technology industry, the traditional service industry. Then it goes on to analyze the causation of the emergence of the R&D service industry with the advancement of the structure of sub-industries based on those of R&D services industry. Finally, the paper estimates the general trend of R&D services industry and argues the reasons why we should develop the R&D service industry