The 2010 EU Survey on R&D Investment Business Trends has found that EU-based companies expect their R&D investments to increase an average of 5% annually from 2010 to 2013. The survey is based on the response of 205 companies with combined R&D investments of nearly €40 billion ($57.7 billion) and an average of 1,250 R&D employees. One quarter of the firms’ R&D is conducted outside of the EU, with the US and Canada accounting for 13% of foreign R&D, India representing 3% and China accounting for 2%. From 2010 to 2013, the firms’ R&D investments in the EU are expected to grow 3% per year, but to grow 25% in China, 20% in the “rest of the world” (including South Korea, Taiwan and Brazil) and 17% in Japan. On average, 27% of the companies’ annual sales came from innovation products introduced in the last three years.

Source: European Commission’s Joint Research Center