The Frascati Manual is a document setting forth the methodology for collecting statistics about research and development.
The Frascati Manual classifies research into three categories:[1] These involve novelty, creativity, uncertainty, systematic, and reproducibility and transferability.
It also organizes the fields of scholarly research endeavors, from mathematics to literature, into main and sub-categories.
After several reviews, a Revised Fields of Science and Technology (FOS) classification was published in February 2007 consisting of the following high-level groupings:[2] The Frascati Manual deals primarily with measuring the expenditure and personnel resources devoted to R&D in the industry sectors performing it: higher education, government, business, and private non-profit organisations.
Based on a background document by Christopher Freeman they drafted the first version of Frascati Manual, which is officially known as The Proposed Standard Practice for Surveys of Research and Experimental Development.