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The 2024 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard

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The 2024 edition of “The EU Industrial Research & Development (R&D) Investment Scoreboard” continues in the 21st year to monitor and analyse industrial R&D investment trends in the context of the EU’s 3% of GDP R&D investment policy target, which is a key performance indicator of the EU’s long-term competitiveness. As emphasised in the recent ‘Draghi’ report, it is crucial for the EU to substantially increase private R&D investments in order to tackle our historic productivity gaps with respect to main global competitors. The 2024 Scoreboard’s monitors the world's top 2 000 R&D investors, responsible for over three quarters of R&D performed by the business sector globally, based on the financial information in the firms’ latest published audited accounts. Chapter 2 analyses the main global trends and benchmarks the EU’s top R&D investing companies against global competitors. Chapter 3 provides details per sector, and chapter 4 deep-dives on a subsample of the EU’s top 800 R&D investing firms. Chapter 5 analyses the R&D productivity from a long-term perspective, and combines the sample with data on Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) to delve into corporate innovation strategies.
2024-12-18
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC140129
978-92-68-22425-0 (online),    978-92-68-22426-7 (print),   
2599-574X (online),    2599-5731 (print),   
OP KJ-01-24-165-EN-N (online),    OP KJ-01-24-165-EN-C (print),   
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC140129,   
10.2760/0775231 (online),    10.2760/9892018 (print),   
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