The 2009 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard - IRI - Europa

3. Top R&D investing companiesThis chapter describes the performance of individual companies, with a focuson the top R&D investors. Among the 2000 Scoreboard companies, there are85 companies in the world with more than €1 bn R&D investment (26 from theEU), 51 with R&D exceeding €2 bn (16 from the EU) and 10 with R&Dexceeding €5 bn (2 from the EU).Top 10• In 2008, the top 10 companies accounted for 13.6% of the total R&Dinvestment by the Scoreboard companies, less than the 14% accounted forin 2005.• The world's top R&D investor in the 2009 Scoreboard is Toyota Motor (€7.61bn) from Japan. There are two EU companies in the top 10 of the R&Dranking: Volkswagen (now part of Porsche Automobile) 17 , which has becomethe biggest EU R&D investor with €5.93 bn, followed by Nokia with €5.32 bn.• There are five US companies in the top 10 of the R&D ranking: Microsoft(€6.48 bn), General Motors (€5.76 bn), Pfizer (€5.72 bn), Johnson & Johnson(€5.45 bn) and Ford Motor (€5.25 bn).• The other two companies among the top 10 are from Switzerland (Roche,€5.88 bn and Novartis, €5.19 bn). These two Swiss companies showed anoutstanding trend over the past three years, increasing their R&D investmentby 50%.• As last year, three companies in the top 10 have shown double digit growthin R&D investment, partly due to acquisitions. Four companies had negativeR&D growth.17At the closing data collection date, however the situation of the company changed afterwards (to be updated in the next Scoreboard).The 2009 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard19