62 Years of Global R&D Funding Research
2021 Global R&D
Funding Forecast
The Global R&D Funding Forecast provides reliable data on more than 100 countries, along with summaries on industrial sector trends, academic research and technology regions around the globe as well as detailed spending plans by U.S. government agencies.
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Across the economic spectrum, the executive leadership in all R&D industries recognize that R&D investments are the key to innovation.
The 2021 full report contains critical trends and analyses of data in multiple technology areas based on our proprietary research, responses from the global R&D community and current economic reports.
Keys to Innovation
R&D Spending
The long-term and short-term investments made
by industry, government and academia for the
coming year are what everyone is watching closely
to help plan R&D budgets and growth strategies.
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Interactive Global R&D Spending Over Time - as % of GDP
As noted, the global R&D forecast changed dramatically during 2020, as the most dire economic predictions made early in the year failed to materialize. At least part of this change was the result of proven and implemented vaccines in numerous countries near the end of the 2020.
Our global R&D forecasts are strongly based on the individual economies of countries. This influence obviously varies, especially in the presence of a pandemic. The country GERD forecasts also are based on historic economic distributions for R&D. For example, China has for more than 20 years consistently invested heavily in its R&D. As a result, though its economic growth was hampered because of the pandemic (as was the case in all other countries), its historic investment of roughly 10% annual increases resulted in a rise in R&D for 2020. Almost all other countries (including the U.S.) saw their 2020 R&D investments decline from what they invested in 2019.