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One in three Swedish companies will increase their R&D during 2017

Almost 9 out of 10 Swedish companies will make R&D investments at the same level or at a higher level than they did in 2016. In the life science sector 34 percent of the companies will invest more, and among the IT and telecom companies the number is 28 percent. These and other interesting figures and comments are presented in a news article in today’s Dagens Industri (only in Swedish), based on Awapatent’s yearly Innovation barometer. The respondents of the latest barometer are 200 R&D managers within life science/medtech/biotech and IT/telecom in companies with businesses in Sweden.

More articles (also in Swedish) based on Awapatent’s Innovation barometer:

Vafinans.se/Awapatent Innovation barometer

Investering.com/Awapatent Innovation barometer