Apple did it more efficiently, with a much lower ratio of research and development spending vs.
For pharmaceutical companies, the level of research and development spending is analogous: the more, the better.
Almeida immediately removed three of four global presidents in his division and doubled research and development spending.
And there will be no shortage of entrepreneurs now that many big firms have slashed their research and development spending.
While it only makes up about 11% of America's GDP, it accounts for two thirds of its research and development spending.
Its recent earnings report shows an increase in research and development spending.
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The ICT sector constitutes around 5% of GDP, but contributes to an amazing figure of 25% of business research and development spending.
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A. in 1987, has instead wrested control of research and development spending decisions away from the divisions and centralized them with the executives at the company.
On the plus side, the company is continuing to increase its research and development spending, not cutting it to make its numbers, as some analysts had feared.
Its research and development spending is increasing exponentially.
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Some of its rivals, such as Sweden's Ericsson, have already transferred all their mobile-telephone production to subcontractors rather than trying to keep up with the research and development spending and technical infrastructure needed to continue to make them on their own.
His response: Increase research-and-development spending 37% in a year when revenue will rise only 14%.
His response: Increase research-and-development spending 37% in a year when revenue will rise just 14%.
But the other line on the chart, research-and-development spending as a percentage of gross profits, is falling.
Last year, for the first time, spending by Apple and Google on patent lawsuits and unusually big-dollar patent purchases exceeded spending on research and development of new products, according to public filings.
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The company cited 15 cents of the shortfall coming from a weaker-than-expected flu season, 7 cents from the decline of the euro, and 4 cents due to greater-than-expected spending on research and development among the reasons for the cut.
Gates also pushed innovation during a question and answer session Thursday, and continued to press his case for increased government spending on energy research and development.
Put a 25 percent tax rate on individuals and corporations and see how it comes out in terms of personal consumption expenditures and corporate spending for plant and equipment, even research and development.
For the full year, the company cut its capital spending and research and development budgets and gross margin target.
With the monopolistic Bell System setting the pace, U.S. corporate spending on research and development took off in the 1920s.
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None of these companies ever cut back on research and development, which paid off as spending on tech infrastucture exploded.
Other large emerging economies are also spending more on research and development than before, among them Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey.
Democrats responded that the Ryan proposal would harm economic growth by shifting the burden of deficit reduction to middle-class Americans, the elderly and others, while cutting spending for college loans, infrastructure development, scientific research and other areas vital for job creation.
Republicans are often seduced by such calls for creatively packaged government spending as well as government research and development generally.
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Already, all major pharmaceutical companies are spending billions of dollars in research and development for every drug they manage to get to market, and the discovery effort is only getting more expensive.
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Democrat Jay Inslee of Washington brought along charts to show how little the U.S. government is spending these days on alternative energy research and development.
Every growth company needs to innovate continually, maybe spending 20 percent of your revenues on research and development.
One reason for Mr Jobs's short fuse may be that Apple's relatively skinny research and development budget has to work much harder than those of competitors who benefit from the huge spending of Microsoft and Intel.
Mr Huhne insisted that nuclear safety remained a top priority for his department, saying he was "committed to an increase in research and development" in safety issues, and assured the committee that safety was not subject to financial constraints under the Spending Review.
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