The 2025 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard
The 2025 edition of ‘The EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard’ monitors and analyses industrial research and development (R&D) investment trends in the context of the EU’s 3% of GDP R&D investment policy target and the related policy initiatives by the Competitiveness Compass.
The 2025 Scoreboard analyses the world's top 2 000 industrial R&D investors, responsible for over 90% of R&D performed by the business sector globally, based on the financial information in the latest published audited accounts of firms. Following the introduction, chapter 2 analyses the main global trends and benchmarks the EU’s top R&D investing companies against global competitors. Chapter 3 provides details by sector, and chapter 4 does a deep-dive on a subsample of the EU’s top 800 R&D investing firms. Chapter 5 analyses R&D internationalisation and chapter 6 key green technologies.
NINDL Elisabeth;
NAPOLITANO Lorenzo;
CONFRARIA Hugo;
RENTOCCHINI Francesco;
FAKO Peter;
INCE Ela;
GEORGAKAKI Aliki;
GAVIGAN James;
TUEBKE Alexander;
2025-12-22
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC144638
978-92-68-34801-7 (online),
978-92-68-34802-4 (print),
2599-574X (online),
2599-5731 (print),
OP KJ-01-25-623-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-01-25-623-EN-C (print),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC144638,
10.2760/7802619 (online),
10.2760/6526424 (print),
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