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2025 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard: automotive R&D stagnates as health and energy surge
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06 September 2026
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The JRC's 2025 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, published 22 December 2025, found that EU-headquartered companies' total R&D investment grew by 2.9% in 2024, down sharply from 9.3% growth in 2023, with performance varying widely by sector.
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Company with 250 or more employees
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Machine Tool Manufacturers
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The EU automotive industry, the bloc's largest R&D investor at EUR 87 billion, grew investment by just 0.8%, well behind China (11.9%) and Japan (12.3%), while EU health sector R&D investment grew 13% and energy sector investment grew 19.8%, both outpacing global peers. Automotive is one of this ecosystem's biggest downstream customers for machinery and production equipment, so a stalling R&D budget there is a genuine early-warning signal for equipment orders, not just an automotive-sector statistic; conversely, the strength of energy-sector R&D points to where machinery suppliers serving that customer base may see more resilient demand. ICT, health, and automotive together account for over 80% of global R&D investment tracked by the Scoreboard, which covers the world's top 2,000 R&D investors and is used as a reference dataset by the Draghi and Heitor reports among others.
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