UK & 1250 Global companies by R&D investment

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ID Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

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Brief highlights .2

Ministerial Foreword4

Executive Summary (Key points from the analysis) 6

Detailed list of contents 20

Commentaries from UK company CEOs22

Analysis with information about:

Chapter 1: How the Scoreboard is compiled and what is new .26

Chapter 2: The role of R&D-active companies in wealth generation 31

Chapter 3: Business performance of R&D companies .35

Chapter 4: Global 1250 R&D by company, sector and country .44

The countries where top R&D companies are based and the top sectors by R&D

The top 50 Global R&D companies and companies with big increases/decreases in R&D

Chapter 5: The relationship between a country’s mix of sectors and its average R&D intensity

Chapter 6: Middle-sized companies (sales £50-500m)67

Chapter 7: The relationship between R&D and company performance .75

Chapter 8: The different levels of patenting activity in 12 R&D sectors .84

Chapter 9: Analysis of UK R&D companies.93

Top 15 UK sectors

Top 25 UK companies

Top 21 foreign-owned UK companies

Middle-sized UK companies