The 2006 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard
The 2006 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard [*] provides information of the top 1000 EU companies and top 1000 from outside the EU (non-EU) which invest the most in R&D. The Scoreboard comprises R&D, economic and financial data of the latest four financial years.
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Furthermore, the Commission has released an analysis of the Scoreboard dataset. (follow the link below)
The mission of the IPTS is to provide customer-driven support to the EU policy-making process by researching science-based responses to policy challenges that have both a socio-economic as well as a scientific/technological dimension.
This 2006 EU R&D Investment Scoreboard is part of the Industrial Research Investment Monitoring activity carried out jointly by the Joint Research Centre (DG JRC) and Research (DG RTD) Directorates-General of the European Commission. The work has been conducted by the JRC´s Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (DG JRC-IPTS), with overall monitoring and guidance provided by Directorate M (Investment in research and links with other policies) of DG RTD. Company data have been collected by Company Reporting Ltd.
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[*] The term EU company concerns companies whose ultimate parent has its registered office in a Member State of the EU. Likewise, non-EU company apply when the ultimate parent company is located outside the EU (see also in the Annex the glossary and definitions as well as the handling of parent companies and subsidiaries).
To access the Scoreboard, please follow the link below.
