- Pharmaceutical companies depend largely on R & D to innovate new product for certain diseases to help in patients treatment and remove suffering
- 2020 is the year of highest budget in R & D in many pharmaceutical companies. Top 10 companies spent around $96 billion this year.
- COVID took the major uptake. Many R& D focused on COVID, but there were plenty in the more traditional areas such as cancer, and in more forgotten areas, like heart disease and antibiotics.
- Roche R&D budget: ($13.9 billion) R&D budget as percentage of revenue: 22.2%
- Merck & Co. R&D budget: $13.6 billion R&D budget as percentage of revenue: 28.3%
- Johnson & Johnson R&D budget: $12.15B R&D budget as percentage of revenue: 14.7%
- Bristol Myers Squibb R&D budget: $11.14 billion R&D budget as percentage of revenue: 26%
- Pfizer R&D budget: $9.4 billion R&D budget as percentage of revenue: 22.4%
- Novartis R&D budget:$8.9 billion R&D budget as percentage of revenue: 18.2%
- GlaxoSmithKline R&D budget:£5.52 billion ($7.7 billion) R&D budget as percentage of revenue: 16.1%
- Sanofi R&D budget:€5.52 billion ($6.6 billion) R&D budget as percentage of revenue:15.3%
- AbbVie R&D budget:$6.55 billion Change from 2019:+$150 million Total 2019 revenue: $45.8 billion R&D budget as percentage of revenue:3%
- Eli Lilly R&D budget: $6.08 billion R&D budget as percentage of revenue: 24.8%