The EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard tracks and compares the performance of the EU’s leading industrial R&D investors with their global counterparts. Since 2004, it has provided valuable insights and data for companies, researchers, and policymakers.
The global top 2 000 R&D investors in the 2025 Scoreboard are based in 45 countries and control over 500 000 corporate subsidiaries. In 2024, they invested EUR 1 446 billion in R&D, representing over 90% of global business-funded R&D. This group includes 318 EU-based companies (16.2% of total R&D investment), 674 US firms (47.1%), 525 Chinese firms (16.1%), 192 Japanese firms (7.8%), and 291 companies from other regions (12.9%). As a novelty, the 2025 Scoreboard includes Amazon, whose estimated R&D investment makes it the world’s leading R&D investor (EUR 65 billion).
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