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News article18 December 2019Directorate-General for Research and Innovation

The 2019 EU industrial R&D investment scoreboard report

The 2019 edition of the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard (the Scoreboard) comprises the 2500 companies investing the largest sums in R&D in the world in 2018/19.

These companies, based in 44 countries, each invested over €30 million in R&D for a total of €823.4 billion which is approximately 90% of the world’s business-funded R&D. They include 551 EU companies accounting for 25% of the total, 769 US companies for 38%, 318 Japanese companies for 13%, 507 Chinese for 12% and 355 from the rest-of-the-world (RoW) for 12%.

This report analyses the main changes in companies' R&D and economic indicators over the past year and their performance over the past ten years. It also includes patent-based analyses aimed at characterising further the R&D efficiency of the business health sector and the activity of the Scoreboard companies in the field of environmental technologies.

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Reference
10.2760/04570
Publication date
18 December 2019
Author
Directorate-General for Research and Innovation