The 2016 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard

Hector Hernandez Guevara, Fernando Hervas Soriano (), Alexander Tuebke (), Antonio Vezzani, Sara Amoroso (), Alex Coad (), Petros Gkotsis and Nicola Grassano
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Fernando Hervas Soriano: European Commission – JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en
Alexander Tuebke: European Commission – JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en
Sara Amoroso: European Commission – JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Alexander Tübke

No JRC103716, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: The 2016 edition of the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard (the Scoreboard) analyses the 2500 companies investing the largest sums in R&D in the world in the fiscal year 2015. It comprises companies based in the EU (590), the US (837), Japan (356), China (327), Taiwan (111), South Korea (75), Switzerland (58) and further 20 countries. This Scoreboard edition shows significant worldwide rise of corporate R&D, driven by high-tech industries. Revenues declined mostly due to low-tech sectors. Top 2500 Scoreboard firms invested in R&D €692.3bn in 2015, increase of 6.6% vs. 2014, similar growth than year before (6.8%). EU companies increased R&D above world's and US's growth rates in 2015. Asian companies continued to show large R&D growth but slowdown in revenues growth. Growth was driven by companies operating in the largest R&D-investing industries (ICT, health and auto, that also increased significantly net sales, while the overall fall in net sales was mostly due low-tech sectors and in particular due to oil-related companies. The Software industry showed the highest R&D growth worldwide, led by global software firms. In addition, notable R&D growth of non-EU companies dominated by high-tech sectors (mostly by US and Chinese companies) while growth of net sales greatly varied across sectors and countries. Among top 50 R&D investors, there are 15 EU companies, same as in last ranking and 30 firms among top 100, one more than last year. The two top investors are Volkswagen (€13.6bn) in 1st place and Samsung (€12.5bn) from KOR in 2nd. The other firms in top-ten are Intel, Alphabet and Microsoft (€11.0bn) from the US; Novartis (€9.0bn) and Roche (€8.6bn) from Switzerland; Huawei (€8.4bn) from China; Johnson & Johnson (€8.3bn) from the US and Toyota Motor (€8.0bn) from Japan.

Keywords: Industrial R&D; top R&D investors; innovation; company performance; economic and innovation performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 67 pages
Date: 2017-01
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