Glossary:Knowledge-intensive services (KIS)

From Statistics Explained

The following sectors are defined as knowledge-intensive services, abbreviated as KIS (NACE divisions between brackets):

• knowledge-intensive high-tech services:

• Post and Telecommunications (64);
• Computer and related activities (72);
• Research and development (73);

• knowledge-intensive market services (excluding financial intermediation and high-tech services):

• Water transport (61);
• Air transport (62);
• Real estate activities (70);
• Renting of machinery and equipment without operator, and of personal and household goods (71);
• Other business activities (74);

• knowledge-intensive financial services:

• Financial intermediation, except insurance and pension funding (65);
• Insurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security (66);
• Activities auxiliary to financial intermediation (67);

• other knowledge-intensive services:

• Education (80);
• Health and social work (85);
• Recreational, cultural and sporting activities (92).

Statistical data

• R & D expenditure