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 €823.4bn 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.
HERNANDEZ GUEVARA Hector;
GRASSANO Nicola;
TUEBKE Alexander;
AMOROSO Sara;
CSEFALVAY Zoltan;
GKOTSIS Petros;
2020-04-15
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC118983
978-92-76-11261-7 (online),
978-92-76-11262-4 (print),
1831-9424 (online),
1018-5593 (print),
2599-5731 (print),
2599-574X (online),
EUR 30002 EN,
OP KJ-BD-19-001-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-BD-19-001-EN-C (print),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC118983,
10.2760/04570 (online),
10.2760/59430 (print),
