Microsoft ranked 7th on Booz Allen Hamilton’s annual list of the world’s largest corporate R&D spenders, the Alpha Doggs blog reports. This is one notch higher for 2006 than its ranking in 2005. Microsoft devoted $6.58 billion to R&D in 2006, up 6.5% from the year before and representing 14.9% of 2006 sales (More on Microsoft research efforts). Toyota topped the list with $7.7 billion in R&D.
Microsoft is a top R&D spender
Analysis
Oct 16, 20071 min
