Laboratory budgetary planning yields key insights into laboratory spending practices. Understanding how much laboratories plan to spend on key technologies and the distribution of those funds can provide insight into trends within an industry and help inform decision making on what technologies are being sought by laboratories. With recent uncertainty in the marketplace, knowing how labs are handling and allocating their resources for purchases of new instruments, consumables, and for servicing their systems, becomes an important tool for planning for the future.
To prepare the SDI Lab Budgets and Funding Sources Survey 2022, a survey was fielded between December and February in which 544 respondents were asked about their lab budgets and spending plans for 2021 and 2022. SDI surveyed respondents from North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific regions to describe spending habits for new instrumentation purchases, consumables, and spending on service-related activities. Detailed spending information was compiled for the following key technology categories: Chromatography, Laboratory Automation, Life Science, Mass Spectrometry, Materials Characterization, Molecular Spectrometry, and Surface Science. Respondents were also asked about funding sources, providing insights into funding trends.
