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EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboards 2011

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R&D intensity by sectorThe worldwide R&D intensity of the main industrial sectors for the 1400Scoreboard companies grouped by main world region is presented in Table 10.Most of the industrial sectors decreased their R&D intensity as sales increasedmore than R&D investment in 2010, the exception being Aerospace & Defence,Fixed Line Telecom and Oil & Gas Producers sectors where R&D intensityremains practically unchanged.Five sectors have R&D intensity greater than 6.0%: Pharmaceuticals &Biotechnology, IT sectors (Software & Computer Services and TechnologyHardware & Equipment), Leisure Goods and Health Care Equipment &Services. The sector with the lowest R&D intensity is Oil & Gas Producers(0.4%) that is characterised by very high turnover which masks high R&Dinvestment in absolute terms.Among the top 15 sectors, the R&D intensity of <strong>EU</strong> companies is higher thanthat of the US and Japan in 6 sectors including Technology Hardware &Equipment, Automobiles & Parts and <strong>Industrial</strong> Engineering. Japanesecompanies show higher R&D intensity than the <strong>EU</strong> and the US in sectors suchas Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology, Electronic & Electrical Equipment andChemicals. The R&D intensity of US companies is higher than that of the <strong>EU</strong>and Japan in Leisure Goods and Health Care Equipment & Services.As observed in previous <strong>Scoreboards</strong>, the overall lower average of R&Dintensity of the <strong>EU</strong> companies is due to their large share of low R&D-intensivesectors with large sales and smaller proportion of companies in high intensitysectors as compared to a similar group of non-<strong>EU</strong> companies. Conversely, thehigh average R&D intensity of the US companies is due to their considerableweight in high R&D-intensive sectors (see Figures 3 and 4).38The <strong>2011</strong> <strong>EU</strong> <strong>Industrial</strong> R&D <strong>Investment</strong> Scoreboard

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