UK chancellor Rishi Sunak’s moves, outlined in the Spring Statement, to improve the effectiveness of research and development are timely. The UK trails others when it comes to spending in the innovation labs and drawing boards. Spending on R&D at the top-ranked 2,500 companies worldwide rose 6 per cent in 2020 to €908.9bn, according to the European Commission’s latest investment scoreboard — even as capital expenditure and sales dipped.
英國財(cái)政大臣里希?蘇納克(Rishi Sunak)在《春季聲明》(Spring Statement)中概述了旨在提高研發(fā)效率的舉措,這是很及時(shí)的。在對(duì)創(chuàng)新實(shí)驗(yàn)室和設(shè)計(jì)進(jìn)行投資方面,英國落后于其他國家。歐盟委員會(huì)(European Commission)最新的《研發(fā)投資記分牌》顯示,2020年,全球排名前2500位的企業(yè)的研發(fā)支出增長6%,至9089億歐元——盡管資本支出和銷售額都有所下降。