Brussels, 05/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - The EU's 2006 scoreboard for industrial R&D investment shows that the 1,000 largest EU companies increased their R&D activity by 5.3% on average in 2005. The 1,000 largest companies outside the Community increased R&D investment spending by 7.7%, which shows a rise in spending in this area at world level.
This encouraging result prompted Janez Potocnik, European Research Commissioner, to say that “if this trend continues, we could gradually close the...