Brussels, 18/11/2013 (Agence Europe) - According to the European Commission's latest EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard published on Monday 18 November, the German carmaker Volkswagen is the world's largest private sector R&D investor with an investment of €9.5billion in 2012. Overall, EU-based firms (527 companies) stepped up R&D investment by 6.3%, just above the average of the 2,000 firms in the Scoreboard (+6.2%). However, like last year, they lagged behind their US counterparts...