Generally speaking, R&D is seen as a main driver of societal and business innovation. The OECD's Frascati Manual describes R&D as "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications."OECD (2002) Frascati Manual 2002: Proposed Standard Practice for Surveys on Research and Experimental Development, The Measurement of Scientific and Technological Activities, p. 30, Paris, FR: OECD Publishing, DOI 10.1787/9789264199040-en, see , accessed 13 October 2015.
