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EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboards 2011

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Indicators' changes by region and sector groupsThis section describes the trends in R&D investment, net sales, operatingprofits and capital expenditures examined based on an aggregation of the 37industrial sectors into four groups of high, medium-high, medium-low and lowR&D intensity (see Box 1).Box 1.Grouping of industrial sectors according to R&D intensity (R&Das % of net sales)High R&D intensity sectors (intensity above 5%) include e.g. Pharmaceuticals &biotechnology; Health care equipment & services; Technology hardware &equipment; Software & computer services.Medium-high R&D intensity sectors (between 2% and 5%) include e.g. Electronics& electrical equipment; Automobiles & parts; Aerospace & defence; <strong>Industrial</strong>engineering & machinery; Chemicals; Personal goods; Household goods; Generalindustrials; Support services.Medium-low R&D intensity sectors (between 1% and 2%) include e.g. Foodproducers; Beverages; Travel & leisure; Media; Oil equipment; Electricity; Fixed linetelecommunications.Low R&D intensity sectors (less than 1%) include e.g. Oil & gas producers;<strong>Industrial</strong> metals; Construction & materials; Food & drug retailers; Transportation;Mining; Tobacco; Multi-utilities.The R&D investment by the 1400 Scoreboard companies (€456bn) isdistributed into the 4 groups as follows:- High R&D intensity, 49.0%,- Medium-high R&D intensity, 38.5%,- Medium-low R&D intensity, 5.8%,- Low R&D intensity, 6.7%As outlined below in Table 9, the worldwide and domestic distribution of theR&D investment by the 1400 Scoreboard companies shows clear differences byworld region, illustrating respectively the weight of the region in the world and itsspecialisation.Companies based in the <strong>EU</strong> specialise in medium-high R&D intensive sectors(48% of total R&D of the <strong>EU</strong> companies) and contribute 36.1% of the total R&Dof the sector group.34The <strong>2011</strong> <strong>EU</strong> <strong>Industrial</strong> R&D <strong>Investment</strong> Scoreboard

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