Horizon Europe Programme in a World and European Context III.

In the Fall of 2023, Patsnap released the Global Innovation Report, which published a list of the 100 greatest global innovators leading the world's technological advancements, not only in terms of their own extensive technological capabilities, but also in terms of their impact on other businesses (both in their core industries and in others). This paper aims to build on previous reports of 26th June 2023 and 11th September 2023, in which we introduced readers to the scale of the EU Framework Programmes in the context of R&D spending in the world's largest industrial corporations.

Patsnap lists 24 European corporations – 16 from the European Union, 4 from the United Kingdom and 4 from Switzerland – in its list of the 100 greatest global innovators for 2023. Within the EU countries, 8 German corporations dominate, focusing on machinery and automotive (Bosch, Continental, Siemens, Volkswagen), pharmaceuticals (Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim) and chemicals (BASF, Merck). The representation of European corporations in this list is lower than in the United States and Japan. The United States has 35 corporations in this ranking, mostly in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries (e.g. Abbott, Abbvie, Boston Scientific, Gilead Sciences, Pfizer, etc.) and in the electronics and information technology industries (Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, Oracle, etc.). In second place is Japan with 30 corporations, most of which are focused on the electronics and information technology industries (e.g. Canon, Fujifilm, Fujitsu, Kyocera, Olympus, Sony, etc.), the machinery and automotive industries (e.g. Denso, Hitachi, Honda, Mitsubishi, Toyota) and the chemical industry (e.g. Nitto Denko, Shin-Etsu Chemical, Sumitomo Chemical). The People's Republic of China has 5 corporations (e.g. Huawei, Tencent, ZTE) and the Republic of Korea 3 (LG Chem, LG Electronics, Samsung).

The table below shows how the 24 European corporations (ranked among the 100 greatest global innovators) stand in the European Union's framework programmes – Horizon 2020 (H2020) in the period 2014-2020 and the current Horizon Europe (2021-2027; HE). The 24 European corporations together claimed a net EU contribution of €724 million in H2020. This corresponds to the amount claimed by the Polish participants (who claimed €746 million from the H2020 programme; H2020 participants from the Czech Republic claimed €509 million). Similarly, in the HE programme, 24 European corporations claim a net EU contribution of €329 million as of 19th December 2023. This is essentially the same amount as all Czech participants.

The whole article with the mentioned table you will find here.