Top R&D Companies
Thursday Dec 08, 2005
IEEE Spectrum just published their annual survey of R&D spending. Sun ranked 56th in total spending at $1.8 billion, just behind Proctor & Gamble and ahead of Renault. The top 10 unsurprisingly include big auto manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies, and just one entry from the computer industry. You guessed it - Microsoft.
Sun really does very well on R&D as percent of sales. Innovation costs money.
| Rank | Company | R&D ($B) | % of Sales |
| 1 | Ford | 7.4 | 4.3% |
| 2 | Daimler Chrysler | 7.2 | 4.0% |
| 3 | Toyota | 7.1 | 4.1% |
| 4 | Pfizer | 6.6 | 12.6% |
| 5 | GM | 6.5 | 3.4% |
| 6 | Siemens | 6.4 | 6.7% |
| 7 | Microsoft | 6.2 | 15.5% |
| 8 | Matsushita | 5.7 | 7.1% |
| 9 | Glaxo Smith Kline | 5.3 | 13.9% |
| 10 | Johnson & Johnson | 5.2 | 11.0% |
| 11 | IBM | 5.2 | 5.4% |
| 13 | Intel | 4.8 | 14.0% |
| 25 | HP | 3.5 | 4.4% |
| 46 | Fujitsu | 2.2 | 5.0% |
| 51 | TI | 2 | 15.7% |
| 56 | Sun | 1.8 | 16.1% |
| 89 | AMD | 0.9 | 18.7% |
Again, the full article with complete tables for the top 100 are available at the IEEE web site, to members and non-members alike.
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