SOCIO-ECONOMIC OBJECTIVE CLASSIFICATION (SEO)
 
Nature and purpose of the SEO Classification

• The SEO Classification allows R&D data to be classified according to the researcher's perceived purpose.

The purpose categories take account of processes, products, health, education and other social and
environmental aspects of particular interest.
 
• A purpose classification such as the SEO provides a set of categories which collectively exhaust

all the objectives of research. In this respect, the scope of the SEO is more extensive than a classification
of economic activities such as the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC),
because not all R&D has an economic motive or context.

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