More than 25% of Catalan companies invest in R&D

Catalonia Trade and Investment’s Innovation Barometer presented on Wednesday shows innovation in Catalonia is growing

Innovation at the Sónar+D in Barcelona
Innovation at the Sónar+D in Barcelona / ACN

ACN | Barcelona

June 28, 2017 07:07 PM

Innovation in Catalonia is growing. That is according to data in Catalonia Trade and Investment’s (ACCIÓ) Innovation Barometer. Presented on Wednesday, the report shows that 25.4% of Catalan companies devoted a part of their budget to research and development (R&D) in 2016. The Barometer emphasizes that 58.2% of companies investing in R&D allocated more resources during 2016, 37.2% of them the same amount and only 4.6% investing less.