{"id":6555,"date":"2011-10-18T15:55:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T19:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=6555"},"modified":"2011-10-18T15:55:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T19:55:21","slug":"pharma-technology-lead-worldwide-corporate-rd-rebound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=6555","title":{"rendered":"Pharma, Technology Lead Worldwide Corporate R&D Rebound"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Research and development spending by the largest 1,400 corporate R&D spenders <\/a>worldwide increased by more than 4 percent to \u20ac465 billion ($US 630 billion) in 2010, reversing a nearly 2 percent decline in 2009. The data are compiled in the European Commission’s EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard<\/a>, released today.<\/p>\n

Pharmaceuticals\/biotechnology, technology hardware, and automotive companies were the top three R&D industries, accounting for more than half of the total spending. Pharma\/biotech R&D expenditures rose 6.2 percent in 2010; this sector was one of the few to record an increase ( 5%) in 2009.<\/p>\n

Technology hardware, with a gain of 3.5 percent in 2010 R&D funding, reversed a 6.4 percent reduction in 2009. R&D by automotive companies in 2010 stayed about the same as in 2009 (a decline of 0.2%), which still marks a substantial change from the nearly 12 percent drop the previous year.<\/p>\n

Of the 1,400 top-ranked enterprises in R&D spending, U.S. companies represent the largest single country in terms of number of businesses represented (487) and proportion of total R&D spending (35.1%). EU countries has 400 companies with 29 percent of the total R&D spending, and Japan has 267 companies with 21.7 percent of the worldwide total R&D amount.<\/p>\n

Switzerland, is not an EU member, and thus recorded separately from the EU totals. Companies in Switzerland, which is the headquarters of Roche, the largest corporate R&D spender and Novartis, ranked no. 8, account for 4.5 percent of the world’s corporate R&D expenditures.<\/p>\n

Other major Asian countries — China, South Korea, and Taiwan — contribute 94 companies to the list, which represent 6.3 percent of the worldwide total corporate R&D in 2010. However, on a percentage basis, the amount of R&D spending in those countries rose substantially in 2010: 29.5, 20.5, and 17.8 percent respectively.<\/p>\n

The top 10 companies in R&D spending in 2010 were …<\/p>\n

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  1. Roche (Switzerland)<\/li>\n
  2. Pfizer (U.S.)<\/li>\n
  3. Microsoft (U.S.)<\/li>\n
  4. Toyota Motor (Japan)<\/li>\n
  5. Merck US (U.S.)<\/li>\n
  6. Volkswagen (Germany)<\/li>\n
  7. Samsung Electronics (South Korea)<\/li>\n
  8. Novartis (Switzerland)<\/li>\n
  9. General Motors (U.S.)<\/li>\n
  10. Johnson & Johnson (U.S.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Read more:\u00a0\u00a0Worldwide Corporate R&D Drops, Pharma\/Biotech Bucks Trend<\/a><\/p>\n

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    Research and development spending by the largest 1,400 corporate R&D spenders worldwide increased by more than 4 percent to \u20ac465 billion ($US 630 billion) in 2010, reversing a nearly 2 percent decline in 2009. The data are compiled in the European Commission’s EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, released today. Pharmaceuticals\/biotechnology, technology hardware, and automotive companies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21,109,53,24,27,11,129],"class_list":["post-6555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-biotech","tag-computer-science","tag-economics","tag-investment","tag-pharmaceuticals","tag-semiconductors","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6559,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions\/6559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}