Measuring the internationalisation of EU corporate R&D: a novel complementary use of statistical sources
The report summarises the main results of a research activity aimed at testing a novel approach for the measurement of EU business R&D internationalisation. Such approach is based on the complementary use of two different sources of data: on the one hand, statistical data from private R&D expenditure taken from national surveys (BERD); on the other hand, data collected from companies' annual reports and accounts (as in the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard). The main objectives of the study were: i) to explore the methodological rationale for comparing the two sets of data; ii) to test the robustness of the novel methodology through an analysis applied to four EU countries (Belgium, Finland, Germany and Italy); iii) to provide indications of possible further research and follow up activities.
The main results from the project are as follows:
- BERD and Scoreboard values, though addressing slightly different concepts, are comparable and can be used in a complementary way.
- Data regarding top EU R&D performers (that is, companies included in Scoreboard rankings who are the active part of the R&D internationalisation process) have to be considered from the starting point of such complementary use, instead of as final data at the country level resulting from official statistics.
- Using top R&D performers¿ global values and adding aggregate values from national R&D statistics allows novel insights on the R&D internationalisation process to be given, at least for the four EU countries involved.
- Further research could rely on the forthcoming Euro-Group Register under development at EUROSTAT, to obtain a clear view of intra-EU cross-country R&D flows.
COZZA Claudio;
2010-12-13
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC60980
978-92-79-17203-8,
1018-5593,
EUR 24564 EN,
OP LF-NA-24564-EN-N,
http://iri.jrc.ec.europa.eu/,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC60980,
10.2791/48097,
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