The 2006 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard

The 2006 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard was released in early October 2006, presents information on 2000 companies from around the world reporting major investments in R&D. The set of companies it covers comprises the top 1000 R&D investors whose registered offices are in the EU [1] and the top 1000 registered elsewhere and contains data of the latest four financial years [2]. The companies are broken down by sector of activity, and to give a fuller picture the data presented include R&D investments, and other economic and financial data from the last four financial years.

The Analysis of the 2006 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard addresses the current state of R&D investment by major firms and how it has developed based on the data in the 2006 Scoreboard and previous editions. The company data are analysed from various perspectives to highlight the main characteristics, emerging trends and the links with some of the main factors influencing business at the level of individual firms, industries and world regions.

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[1] 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).

[2] The Scoreboard is being released as soon as data has become available in order to allow anyone who wishes to analyse the data to do so. The Commission is also analysing the data and expects to publish the results before the end of the year.