The 2007 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard

The 2007 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, released in early October 2007, 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. The figures are derived from company accounts and indicate the R&D invested by companies' own funds, independently of the location of the R&D activity. The Scoreboard includes R&D figures along with other economic and financial data from the last four financial years. [2]

The report includes a discussion on the key figures of the world’s top R&D investors. It examines overall levels of R&D, the performance of the EU companies, and the main changes that took place last year.

The performance of individual companies among the top R&D investors, in particular those undergoing significant R&D growth is outlined. Moreover, an overview of the company data aggregated by industrial sectors and world regions, with comparisons between the EU companies and their main competitors is included.

The full dataset of the 2007 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard is provided below. The data for the EU and the non-EU groups are presented in single tables comprising rankings by companies, industrial sectors and countries.

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The Analysis of the 2007 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, released in September 2008, offers an analysis of the European Commission‘s 2007 Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard (the Scoreboard).
It contains information on the 1000 EU companies and 1000 non-EU companies which made the biggest investments in Research and Development (R&D) in the period.
Together, these 2000 companies invested €372 billion in R&D in the year of reporting (i.e. 2006/7). This corresponds to approximately 80% of global business expenditure on R&D.

The analysis describes the main trends in recent years and investigates the differences between EU companies and their competitors in terms of R&D intensity and R&D growth.
It also includes results of further research on related topics:

i) To what extent is the EU-US gap in R&D intensity due to differences in the sectoral composition of sales?, and

ii) What is the role of R&D in company performance?

 

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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 in the coming months.

[3] This table includes also subsidiaries (marked with two stars "**" and with a "?" when they are not listed in any recognised stock exchange). All the rules for inclusion in the Scoreboard are applied (i.e. availability of accounts and disclosure of R&D). However, companies that have a national parent (whose annual report and accounts are available) are excluded from the top 10 list.