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R&D spending on the rise in UK
News R&D investment among UK businesses continued its upward trend in 2003, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). In 2003, total R&D spend rose four per cent from 2002 to £13.7bn. [29 Nov 2004]
R&D tax credit for SMEs
News The Inland Revenue has announced that 4,500 small and medium-sized firms will be eligible for a R&D tax credit next year. In a tax credit package proposed in March, Inland Revenue (IR) said it planned to increase the existing 100 per cent... [11 Nov 1999]
R&D investment heads for China and India
News The survey of 186 companies worldwide found a general trend of innovation moving east and predicts that China and India are on the verge of overtaking Western Europe as the most important locations for foreign R&D for US businesses. [25 May 2006]
R&SA offshores 1,200 to India
News Royal & Sun Alliance (R&SA) has become the latest insurance company to join the exodus from the UK by announcing the offshoring of 1,200 roles to India over the next two years. The company claims the move will deliver annual cost savings in excess... [12 Oct 2004]
R&D spend not a sure ticket to success
News A report out today from consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton failed to discover any definite relationship between the amount companies spend on R&D and key performance metrics such as sales, profits, market share and stock price. [11 Oct 2005]
R&D boost for European businesses
News According a European Commission survey, businesses in the region plan to up their R&D spending by five per cent per year over the next three years. Taken together, the 449 respondents to the survey account for nearly €30bn in R&D investment. [24 Aug 2006]
R&D suffers for the sake of taxes and the City
News Industry leaders told UK consultancy firm KPMG for its electronics report that R&D expenditure was failing to keep up with growth in the electronics industry. Crispin O'Brien, deputy chairman of the global electronics team at KPMG, said: "KPMG... [21 Feb 2001]
In brief: Netscape builds support for SAP R/3
News Netscape Application Server (NAS) is to support for SAP R/3 databases using a software extension. SAP customers will be able to connect NAS to their legacy databases, boosting the capabilities of their Web servers, according to Netscape. [17 Sep 1998]
Toys R Us says Amazon
News Toys R Us and Amazon have today launched a co-branded website to sell toys online. The tie up will see Amazon handle technical issues, customer service and product fulfilment for a new store called Imaginarium.com, while Toys R Us will manage... [30 Jul 2001]
Oracle opens Dublin R&D centre
News Oracle is investing E130m (£80m) in a global R&D centre opened in Dublin yesterday by Irish Prime Minister Berty Ahern. The US company spent E7m (£4.3m) building the centre, which is designed to centralise all its technology and services teams. [15 Jan 2002]
European R&D spend still playing catch up
News R&D spending by European companies grew by a "very encouraging" 5.3 per cent last year, leading to hopes the R&D "investment gap" can be closed. According to the European Commission's Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, 18 out of the top 50... [06 Oct 2006]
European R&D spending on the up
News The R&D spend growth for the top 1,000 non-EU companies was 10 per cent, according to the 2007 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard. But the latest EU figures are an improvement on 2006 when R&D spending from the top 1,000 EU companies grew by... [08 Oct 2007]
Toy R Us takes the wind out of Amazon's sales
News Shares in Amazon have been hit hard by news of restructuring plans at its partner Toys R Us. Amazon.com handles online sales for Toys R Us and the US media is rife with reports the price charged for the store front may be a subject of some... [15 Mar 2002]
RiverSoft increases revenue, R&D, recruitment and loss
News The company blamed the widened losses on recruitment and increased R&D spend, which rose four-fold to £5.8m during the year. The UK company, which produces software to manage faults on data networks, saw losses rise from £5.3m in 1999 to £26.5m... [06 Mar 2001]
Toys R Us reports falling profits
News Toys R Us is blaming falling profits in its Q2 results on investment in the Internet. Toys R Us spent $4m over the last quarter setting up its ecommerce venture http://www.toysrus.com, and recently appointed John Barbour as online CEO after its... [17 Aug 1999]
