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R& D Performance by Manufacturing Industries
The United States, Japan, and Germany represent the three largest economies of the industrialized world and compete head to head in many manufacturing industries. An analysis of R& D data provides some
explanation for past national success in certain of these industries and can also signal shifts in national technology priorities. (Click here for footnote 22.)
R& D performance (spending) by eight manufacturing industries is examined--aircraft, computer and office equipment, communications equipment, pharmaceuticals, instruments, scientific instruments, motor vehicles, chemicals, and electrical
machinery. These eight industries include all the top performers of industrial R& D in the United States, Japan, and Germany. They also happen to have the highest "R& D intensity" among manufacturing industries in the OECD countries as a group. (Click here for footnote 23.)
Footnote 22:
Industry-level data are occasionally estimated in order to provide a complete time series for the 1973-90 period.
Footnote 23:
Only six industries were included in the high-tech group discussed earlier with regard to market competitiveness. For the group of OECD countries, these six had substantially higher R& D intensities (R& D as a share of total output) than did
the motor vehicle industry and the chemicals industry and therefore were not included in OECD's group of high-tech industries. (See "OECD High-Tech Industries" for individual industry R& D intensities.)
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