2006 The top 800 UK & 1250 Global companies by R&D investment

Ranking of the top 1250 global companies by R&D investmentRanking of the top 1250 global companies by R&D investment—–––––—— 2005/06 R&D investment —–––––—— ——––––––—– Previous R&D investment ——––––––—–change sales 2004/05 2003/04 2002/03 2001/02Company Rank £m 1 yr % % Industry £m £m £m £mHeiwa, Japan 1150 22.39 0 3.5 23 22.49 22.38 18.88 16.17M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers(now M-Systems), Israel(now part of SanDisk, USA) 1151 22.38 55 6.2 37 14.47 8.57 6.98 7.74Perrigo, USA 1151 22.38 39 3.8 33 16.15 13.58 11.59 10.27Cookson, UK 1153 22.30 -8 1.4 16 24.30 32.30 33.00 40.60Mosel Vitelic, Taiwan 1153 22.30 383 5.3 8 4.61 54.74 96.36 94.54Berna Biotech, Switzerland 1155 22.23 -4 29.5 33 23.15 22.79 17.34 n/aHarmonic, USA 1155 22.23 7 14.8 37 20.73 20.45 23.78 29.89MEMC Electronic Matrials, USA 1157 22.12 n/a 3.7 37 n/a n/a n/a n/aSecom, Japan 1158 22.06 9 0.8 36 20.18 24.69 25.27 26.29C-Cor, USA 1159 22.02 76 15.9 37 12.52 15.73 15.78 10.14GUS, UK 1160 22.00 47 0.3 17 15.00 65.00 68.00 71.10Pilkington, UK(now part of NSG UK Enterprises) 1160 22.00 -24 0.9 6 29.00 29.00 30.00 32.00Eramet, France 1162 21.99 -9 1.2 21 24.05 18.55 15.12 13.06Semtech, USA 1163 21.86 12 15.7 37 19.51 17.69 18.25 17.33Acxiom, USA 1164 21.85 5 2.8 36 20.79 27.93 31.61 10.37Amphenol, USA 1164 21.85 16 2.1 8 18.91 15.36 14.09 13.17Zarlink Semiconductor, Canada 1166 21.84 -42 21.0 37 37.98 43.74 51.72 48.64Amkor Technology, USA 1167 21.75 2 1.8 37 21.38 15.02 18.17 22.59I2 Technologies, USA 1167 21.75 -47 10.5 35 41.16 47.06 100.81 169.16Investment Technology, USA 1169 21.73 18 9.1 15 18.35 16.95 16.26 13.38Zumtobel, Austria 1170 21.65 -2 2.7 8 22.02 19.73 n/a n/aHirose Electric, Japan 1171 21.60 23 4.9 8 17.52 14.59 16.99 18.84China Steel, Taiwan 1172 21.55 14 0.4 21 18.87 17.29 15.91 15.37Hutchinson Technology, USA 1173 21.45 30 5.8 37 16.46 8.71 10.29 13.54Zambon, Italy 1174 21.30 -3 7.2 33 22.06 21.71 n/a n/aNovatek Microelectronics, Taiwan 1175 21.27 n/a 4.6 8 n/a n/a n/a n/aOptimax Technology, Taiwan 1176 21.20 18 67.4 8 18.01 n/a n/a n/aIMMSI, Italy 1177 21.18 -20 2.0 2 26.59 26.04 n/a n/aPhoton Dynamics, USA 1178 21.13 22 28.8 8 17.30 13.27 10.96 9.97Nyco, Denmark 1179 21.12 20 6.1 33 17.66 22.66 n/a n/aDatascope, USA 1180 21.09 12 10.3 18 18.91 27.94 14.98 14.21Verint Systems, USA 1181 21.06 30 14.5 35 16.20 12.89 11.26 10.78Rexam, UK 1182 21.00 62 0.6 16 13.00 16.00 20.00 28.00Tate & Lyle, UK 1182 21.00 11 0.6 12 19.00 17.00 18.00 17.00United Therapeutics, USA 1182 21.00 18 31.1 33 17.83 20.63 15.60 18.98AO Smith, USA 1185 20.97 0 2.1 8 20.91 20.15 17.71 16.08SEZ, Switzerland 1186 20.96 7 15.2 37 19.67 16.42 16.59 16.35Newport, USA 1187 20.94 38 8.7 8 15.20 10.57 14.20 17.91Kurita Water Industries, Japan 1188 20.87 -1 2.6 20 21.17 22.13 25.03 23.41Cargotec, Finland † 1189 20.85 n/a 1.2 20 n/a n/a n/a n/aSasol, South Africa 1189 20.85 -43 0.3 30 36.28 61.44 93.95 41.60Shindengen Electric Manufacturing, Japan 1191 20.81 -15 4.7 37 24.48 29.72 30.63 32.43D-Link, Taiwan 1192 20.75 -7 3.2 35 22.20 16.61 14.59 12.01Mabuchi Motor, Japan 1193 20.71 4 4.5 8 19.91 18.33 17.45 16.89Jack Henry & Associates, USA 1194 20.68 26 6.6 35 16.36 12.26 7.30 6.33Imagination Technologies, UK 1195 20.65 7 58.5 37 19.24 16.10 12.89 10.94Barilla GeR Fratelli, Italy 1196 20.61 n/a 1.2 12 n/a n/a n/a n/aNetflix, USA 1196 20.61 101 5.2 17 10.27 12.74 10.27 11.42Sudzucker, Germany 1196 20.61 9 0.6 12 18.96 17.87 17.52 15.67Ushio, Japan 1199 20.60 24 3.5 8 16.57 16.56 17.55 18.18—–––––—— 2005/06 R&D investment —–––––—— ——––––––—– Previous R&D investment ——––––––—–change sales 2004/05 2003/04 2002/03 2001/02Company Rank £m 1 yr % % Industry £m £m £m £mAccton Technology, Taiwan 1200 20.45 -14 6.3 37 23.90 18.82 19.53 14.83Micromuse, USA (now part of IBM) 1200 20.45 12 21.8 35 18.31 17.11 19.15 19.67Geron, USA 1202 20.43 17 569.6 33 17.52 14.84 18.39 16.90Gentex, USA 1203 20.42 14 6.5 2 17.96 15.50 13.38 12.05ELMOS Semiconductor, Germany 1204 20.41 15 20.2 37 17.70 16.44 13.22 11.67Inco, Canada 1205 20.39 21 0.8 21 16.89 15.73 9.90 11.65EMS-Chemie, Switzerland 1206 20.38 4 3.6 5 19.56 18.33 28.60 28.22Asyst Technologies, USA 1207 20.32 -4 5.7 37 21.19 23.33 23.34 25.78Ametek, USA 1208 20.27 36 2.4 8 14.85 13.63 13.81 13.16Finland Post, Finland 1208 20.27 51 2.2 22 13.40 15.39 13.19 14.43Hitachi Zosen, Japan 1210 20.26 0 1.2 20 20.18 26.75 31.75 28.67Silicon Integrated Systems, Taiwan 1210 20.26 3 10.1 37 19.63 29.13 36.38 33.40Tenaris, Luxembourg 1212 20.21 32 0.5 31 15.32 3.55 n/a n/aTechnip, France 1213 20.20 -11 0.5 31 22.81 22.88 25.70 12.57Makita, Japan 1214 20.16 0 2.1 19 20.17 19.03 18.49 16.95Neurogen, USA 1215 20.13 56 457.3 33 12.94 16.54 17.40 18.84Salix Pharmaceuticals, USA 1216 20.12 70 22.3 33 11.86 13.78 10.47 0.00Sanyo Chemical Industries, Japan 1216 20.12 5 4.4 5 19.18 20.45 20.39 20.44Macrovision, USA 1218 20.02 20 16.9 35 16.69 10.03 6.92 6.57SeaChange International, USA 1218 20.02 17 27.2 35 17.14 15.16 15.20 13.61Xoma, Bermuda 1220 20.01 -32 184.1 33 29.44 30.34 17.22 15.06Intracom, Greece 1221 19.98 -46 4.7 37 37.10 44.66 50.16 37.34Manhattan Associates, USA 1222 19.89 18 13.9 35 16.79 15.94 12.10 11.31Ess Technology, USA 1223 19.79 -9 18.7 37 21.82 19.33 15.71 16.28NDChealth, USA(now part of Per-Se Technologies) 1223 19.79 -3 7.2 18 20.45 21.97 11.01 10.19Terayon Communication Systems, USA 1225 19.78 -21 22.6 37 24.95 34.19 46.56 39.77CSG Systems International, USA 1226 19.77 -43 6.2 35 34.38 36.65 42.91 30.42Brembo, Italy 1227 19.74 n/a 4.0 2 n/a 7.86 6.27 7.68Coloplast, Denmark 1228 19.71 5 3.3 18 18.70 18.98 n/a n/aKomori, Japan 1229 19.68 2 3.6 20 19.21 17.57 n/a n/aGameloft, France 1230 19.58 n/a 60.8 35 n/a 2.68 0.01 0.07Indesit, Italy 1230 19.58 60 0.9 19 12.23 n/a n/a n/aSteris, USA 1232 19.57 -5 2.8 18 20.71 16.57 14.87 12.64Briggs & Stratton, USA 1233 19.51 29 1.3 19 15.09 15.38 13.81 12.52Hokkaido Electric Power, Japan 1233 19.51 -4 0.8 7 20.30 22.24 24.46 27.47Exedy, Japan 1235 19.47 -1 2.9 2 19.71 19.71 19.18 n/aOshkosh Truck, USA 1236 19.45 21 1.1 20 16.05 13.08 10.41 8.34Advent Software, USA 1237 19.44 3 19.8 35 18.79 20.73 23.08 15.98BIC, France 1237 19.44 14 2.0 19 17.00 20.71 25.10 31.55ISEKI, Japan 1237 19.44 3 2.5 20 18.86 19.06 n/a n/aDyson James, UK 1240 19.42 31 4.6 19 14.78 11.80 7.97 10.00Austriamicrosystems, Austria 1241 19.38 0 15.8 8 19.33 19.89 19.81 16.47Inter-Tel, USA 1242 19.37 15 7.5 37 16.78 12.80 11.27 10.23Vignette, USA 1243 19.35 -36 17.4 35 30.16 23.85 30.57 39.60Dialog Semiconductor, UK 1244 19.31 -3 21.5 37 19.98 21.02 22.07 19.72Micros Systems, USA 1244 19.31 22 5.5 37 15.85 10.92 11.25 11.47Universal Scientific Industrial, Taiwan 1244 19.31 10 2.1 8 17.56 14.35 9.93 7.25Avanex, USA 1247 19.29 -21 20.6 37 24.53 9.42 14.02 22.05Gigabyte Technology, Taiwan 1248 19.27 22 2.3 8 15.82 12.47 12.06 n/aOMX, Sweden 1249 19.25 119 8.4 15 8.78 16.18 18.59 28.84La Poste, France 1250 19.24 22 0.1 22 15.80 8.93 n/a n/a188 The 2006 R&D ScoreboardThe 2006 R&D 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