About the R&D scoreboard 2009

This report summarises the findings of the 2009 R&D Scoreboard, an investigation of the 1,000 UK and 1,000 global companies that invested most in R&D in 2008.

This is the 19th annual edition of the R&D Scoreboard, which is published by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS).

The Scoreboard is an international league table of the companies investing the most in R&D. It is designed as a benchmarking tool for companies, investors and policy-makers. Twelve leading business and professional organisations endorse the Scoreboard as a source of information for their companies and their shareholders when considering the amount invested in R&D as part of their innovation process and business strategy; a list of the endorsers is inside the back cover.

This report summarises the 2008 company data on investment in R&D and financial performance of the 1,000 UK companies that have invested most in R&D, including foreign-owned companies whose R&D is conducted in the UK and reported in the UK1000. To put the UK performance into perspective, it also includes data on the 1,000 most R&D active companies globally (G1000) and highlights the main trends in both the UK and global data.