over the world and is widely used by various organisations associated with the United Nations and European Union. As of 2000, approximately 75% of countries used this method to share information about their budgets. Over the past 40 years, the NESTI group has developed a series of documents, known as the "Frascati Family", that includes manuals on R&D (Frascati Manual), innovation (Oslo Manual), human resources (Canberra Manual), technology, balance of payments, and patents as indicators of science and technology. See also Giorgio Sirilli References External links Full version of the Frascati Manual, 2015; OECD Canberra Manual (human resources) OECD Science and Technology Policy OECD Science and Technology Indicators (report) OECD S&T Indicators OECD Research methods Research and development