Microsoft spent $7.4 billion last year on research and development. Apple spent $844 million. Yet Apple seems to deliver far more innovative products to market.
This comparison may have you scratching your head (Where can all that money go?) but as Ben Worthen notes at the WSJ’s Tech Biz blog, there doesn’t seem to be much correlation between R&D spending and innovation.
After Microsoft came IBM ($6.2 billion), Intel ($5.8 billion), Cisco ($4.7 billion), and H-P ($3.6 billion). Oracle ($2.5 billion), SAP ($2.3 billion), Google ($2.1 billion), Sun ($1.9 billion), and AMD ($1.8 billion) rounded out the top 10.
Google’s total was $890 million, or 74%, more than it spent on R&D last year, according to CIO Zone, making it the biggest mover in terms of dollars spent.
So Google spent 80 percent less on R&D than H-P? Weird.
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