2009 Global R&D Outlook
In recent years, global effects have slowed R&D growth. Nonetheless, a number of signs point to increased spending in the R&D field for the coming year.
In its World Economic Outlook, published in October 2008, the International Monetary Fund stated that the quickly decelerating world economy would affect global research and development (R&D), with some global R&D growth absorbed by the inflation rate for a net result of flat R&D spending.
Source: Industrial Market Trends















