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Queensland Life Sciences Industry Report 2012 84 14.1.3 Development of Survey Questionnaire The survey questionnaire was based largely on the question set used in the previous QLS Industry Survey 2009. This approach was adopted so that as much as possible of the data collected would be comparable with that from the previous surveys. Additional questions were added to gather data in new areas of interest for the State. The questionnaire was submitted to DSITIA for review and approval prior to launching the survey online. The questionnaire was designed to gather data on key measures of economic, research, commercialisation and education performance. These measures included: Core Data Industry Performance Number of establishments Years established Industry sector distribution Economic Performance Number of employees Change in employee numbers over previous 12 months Total expenditure on salaries and wages/average wage Revenues Number of ASX listed companies Market capitalisation of listed companies Exports (value and key markets)/Imports Commercialisation Performance Number of products/services in development and associated stage of development Education/Skilling Performance Distribution of skills (work categories) R&D Performance R&D expenditure Additionality Data Reasons for location in Queensland Interactions with the public research base Which institutes and faculties? Nature of interaction Benefits gained from interaction What would have happened otherwise? Level of satisfaction with the public research base, with reasons Importance of public research base to future operations Distinguish between university spinouts and others Interactions with Queensland Government programs Which programs? Benefits gained 117 www.surveygizmo.com What would have happened in the absence of the program? Level of satisfaction with the program, with reasons Sector Specific Data Economic Performance Life scientists in workforce Revenues to include income from grants Income generated by international business deals Key international collaborations / alliances Commercialisation Performance Patents lodged Angel/VC investment secured Spin off companies formed Clinical trials Licences issued Education/Skilling Performance Science Higher Education degrees awarded by QLD institutions Bioscience Higher Education degrees awarded by QLD institutions R&D Performance Citations/Publications Capital Raising Strategy for next 12 months Venture capital Angel investors Mergers and acquisitions In-licensing and out-licensing IPOs Private options Commercialisation strategy by QLD institutions Bioscience Higher Education degrees awarded by QLD institutions 14.1.4 Distribution of Survey and Collection of Responses The online survey platform, Survey Gizmo, 117 was used to deliver the survey to organisations on the industry contact database provided by the DSITIA. The most senior or most relevant, contact within each organisation was selected to receive the survey invitation via an e-mail with a hyperlink to the survey. Contacts were excluded in cases where a sub-division of that organisation, which has a greater focus on Life Sciences, was already represented in the survey. For example, the central administration of Queensland universities was generally excluded as a number of Life Sciences focused schools, centres and institutes within each institution were included in the database. The survey initially closed on Friday 13 April 2012, with additional responses received until 30 April 2012. Prior to the close of the survey and in the fortnight following the first
close, brief follow-up telephone calls were made to contacts that had not declined to participate in the survey (through the opt-out facility) but had not yet completed the questionnaire. The database of organisations that comprise the QLS Industry has undergone some change since the 2009 survey. Fourteen Life Sciences companies, primarily small start-up technology companies, are no longer operating. Other companies are now located outside Queensland or are no longer operating in a sub-sector of the QLS Industry. However, the overall number of companies in the sector has grown through additions across all sub-sectors, particularly in the area of Industrial Biotechnology, which includes several new biofuel companies. A total of 139 organisations out of the 301 organisations in the DSITIA Life Sciences database (46%) undertook the survey. 14.1.5 Analysis of Primary Survey Data At the conclusion of the survey period, the full data set collected through the online industry survey was downloaded from the server of the survey tool provider. All electronic copies of the survey were removed from the server on completion of the project. Raw survey data was incorporated into a data spreadsheet from which all data outputs and analyses presented in the report were derived. The total, mean and median was calculated for all quantitative data collected. Total population estimates were derived using multiple imputation methods. A complete list of Life Sciences companies was compiled through consultation with DSITIA. The organisation classification (company/RO) and estimated organisation size (classified as small, medium or large) were used in a regression equation to estimate missing data points. Given the non-parametric distribution of the data, the total population estimates and confidence intervals were estimated using bootstrap methods. The organisation classification and size served as strata for the re-sampling. The confidence intervals presented are 95% bias corrected and accelerated to account for the typical right skew of count and, in particular, financial data. These methods are superior to mean imputation methods in that known information can be used to inform the missing value, and as such are likely to provide a more accurate representation of the industry. 14.1.6 Industry Size versus Response Rate Survey conducted in 2009 and 2011 Number of respondents to surveys in 2009 and 2011 2009 2011 Total Number of organisations in the Government database 296 301 Number of companies in the database 235 252 Number of research organisations in the database 60 49 Total Number of organisations responding to survey 134 139 Number of companies responding to survey 104 111 Number of research organisations responding to survey 30 28 85
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