Analysis of the World Top 1000 Corporations R&D Investment in 2014: With Focus on those Chinese Corporations
- DOI
- 10.2991/msmi-16.2016.44How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- R&D Investment; Industrial Sectors
- Abstract
Each year, the European Union's (EU) Economics of Industrial Research & Innovation (IRI) project group will publish a report entitled "R&D Scoreboard" which summarizes the world top 1,500 to 2,500 corporations (number varies from year to year) R&D investment in the previous year. In this paper, the author will extract the top 1000 corporations from this EU 2015 report, then analyze and compare the Chinese corporations' performance versus the rest of the pool. By comparing the investment in different sectors, we found that the Chinese corporations' primary R&D investment, similar to other regions, were in the construction, IT industry, transportation, and energy sectors. However, different from other regions, Chinese R&D investment in the pharmaceuticals and biotechnology is significantly less than the rest of the world. Our next step is to compare the annual profit margin with the R&D investment percentages of these Chinese corporations. The objective is to verify whether the Chinese corporations will stick to the sustainable strategy of continuously increasing in R&D investment, regardless of the short-term revenue fluctuations.
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- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Michael H. Wang AU - Yu Fan AU - Can-Rong Zhang PY - 2016/08 DA - 2016/08 TI - Analysis of the World Top 1000 Corporations R&D Investment in 2014: With Focus on those Chinese Corporations BT - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Management Science and Management Innovation PB - Atlantis Press SP - 183 EP - 186 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/msmi-16.2016.44 DO - 10.2991/msmi-16.2016.44 ID - Wang2016/08 ER -