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

5. R&D distribution by industrial sectorThis chapter presents the main R&D trends among Scoreboard companiesaggregated by industrial sectors 21 . It comprises the ranking of sectors by theirlevel of R&D investment, R&D intensities and rates of R&D growth. It includesalso the comparison of such trends across world regions for which the samplecomprising the world’s top 1350 companies is considered (the top 350 EU and1000 non-EU companies).General R&D trendsFigure 4 shows the R&D rankings of the main industrial sectors including therelative R&D share by main world region. The specialisation of the main worldregions, represented by the share of sectors within the regions' total R&Dinvestment, is given in Figure 5.The observations are the following:• R&D investment in the Scoreboard remains highly concentrated by sectors:Out of 37 industrial sectors, the top three –Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology,Technology Hardware & Equipment and Automobiles & Parts– account formore than 53%; the top 6 and top 15 sectors constitute, respectively, 72%and 93% of the total R&D in the Scoreboard (see Figure 4). Similarconcentration of R&D by industrial sector has been observed over the last 5years.• There has been a shift in the ranking of main sectors by overall R&Dinvestment as the Leisure Goods sector took over the seventh position fromthe Aerospace & Defence sector.• The Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology sector remains the top R&D investorwith a share of 18.9%. It is followed by the Technology Hardware &Equipment sector with a share of 17.4% and the Automobile & Parts sectorwith 17.1%.• The share of Japanese companies increased substantially, especially in theGeneral Industrials, Automobiles & Parts, Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnologyand the Chemicals sectors. The EU share decreased a little, particularly inhigh R&D intensive sectors, and the share of the US remains practicallyconstant, except in the Automobile & Parts and Technology Hardware &Equipment sectors where it decreased slightly.• The 5 most R&D intensive sectors (Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology,Hardware Technology & Equipment, Software & Computer Services, LeisureGoods and Health Care Equipment & Services), all with an average R&Dintensity of over 6%, contribute about 70% of the total R&D for the US, andabout 36% for both the EU and Japan.21According to the Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB) applied in the Scoreboard.28The 2009 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard