The data shows the sectoral distribution of world's top 2500 companies that invested €607.2 billion in R&D as of 2014 - representing about 90% of the total expenditure on R&D by business worldwide. The sample contains 608 companies based in the EU, 829 companies based in the US, 360 in Japan and 703 from the rest of the world.
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After two consecutive years of 9%+ growth, global R&D spending returned to the long-term growth trend and grew at 5.8% in 2013 to the highest total ever, $638 billion The top three industries by R&D spending continue to be Computing & Electronics, Health, and Auto The Software & Internet, Health, and Auto sectors accounted for 74% of the overall growth in spending; Chemicals & Energy decreased its R&D expenditures Spending in North America grew at an above average rate of 8.6% while Europe grew at a below average rate of 4.5%; Japan reduced its R&D...
The Global Innovation Index (GII) recognizes the key role of innovation as a driver of economic growth and prosperity and acknowledges the need for a broad horizontal vision of innovation that is applicable to both developed and emerging economies, with the inclusion of indicators that go beyond the traditional measures of innovation (such as the level of research and development in a given country). The GII has evolved into a valuable benchmarking tool to facilitate public-private dialogue, whereby policymakers, business leaders and other stakeholders can evaluate progress on a...
(December 2022) From job creation and public health to national security and industrial competitiveness, innovations plays a vital role in a country’s socio-economic development and International competitiveness, impacting nearly every corner of society—either directly or indirectly. According to the Global Innovation Index Project, China has performed the most progress in innovation ecosystem development among over 200 countries over the last decade.China, Iran, South Korea, Turkey and France were the only five countries that demonstrated the outpacing growth in domestic...
Research and Development (R&D) is the field of statistics comprising data on science, technology and innovation. This data is of great significance in the modern economy as it helps to build broad and comprehensive vision of innovation activity that is acknowledged by the most of developed and developing countries as the key driver behind the economic growth and competitiveness. That is why, policymakers try to induce innovation activity by focusing on the role of technology, information and learning in economic performance or, in other words, introducing the concept known as...
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