R&D

The 2006 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard provides information of the top 1000 EU companies and top 1000 from outside the EU (non-EU) which invest the most in R&D.

This Battelle-R&D Magazine report on international research and development trends sees China's race into R&D as the modern day equivalent of the Cold War.

A survey of 449 European businesses shows that they plan to increase their spending on R&D by 5% a year for the next three years.

Spend more on basic research - that's one of the prescriptions for Europe offered by Jim Goodnight, founder and CEO of SAS, one of the world's largest privately held software companies.