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Acknowledgements
The 2018 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard has been published within the context of the Global Industrial Research &
Innovation Analyses (GLORIA) activities that are jointly carried out by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre –
Directorate Innovation and Growth and the Directorate General for Research and Innovation- Directorate A, Policy Development
and Coordination. GLORIA activities aim to improve the understanding of industrial R&D and Innovation in the EU and to identify
medium and long-term policy implications. The project was coordinated under the leadership of Alessandro Rainoldi (Head of
JRC.B3 Territorial Development Unit) and Román Arjona Gracia (Head of DG RTD.A4 Analysis and monitoring of national research
policies). This document was produced by Héctor Hernández, Nicola Grassano, Alexander Tübke, Lesley Potters, Petros Gkotsis
and Antonio Vezzani (JRC – Territorial Development Unit) as the main authors. Roberto Martino, Marnix Surgeon, Beat Bilbao
Osorio, Richard Deiss from DG RTD.A4 made contributions to the design and review of this work. Michael Tubbs from
Innovomantex Ltd. greatly contributed to this work, reviewing the whole analytical work and providing industrial insights. Alberto
Cáceres Guillén from Alepro Data Analysis & Consulting supported the quality control of the company dataset. Data have been
collected by Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing GmbH under supervision by Petra Steiner, Annelies Lenaerts and Vivien Schulz.
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SCOREBOARD
Table of Contents
SUMMARY
INTRODUCTION
1. The industrial R&D landscape
1.1 Economic context and technological drivers
1.2 Characterisation of the R&D investment
2. Global industrial R&D trends
2.1 Change in companies' indicators in 2017/18
2.2 Long-term performance of companies
3. R&D trends by industry and region
3.1 Main changes in indicators in 2017/18
3.2 Ten-year change in sector composition
3.3 R&D intensity differences across regions: structural vs intrinsic factors
4. Performance of top global R&D investors
5. Analysis of the top EU 1000 R&D investors
6. Mapping business innovation activities throughout the EU
7. Ten-year trends of top R&D performers from Asian countries
Annexes:
A1 - Background information
A2 - Methodological notes
A3 - Complementary tables
A4 - Access to the full dataset
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