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Thomson Reuters Names the 2014 Top 100 Global Innovators


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06 Nov, 2014, 05:01 GMT

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-- Top 100 most innovative companies nearly doubled the annual revenue growth rate of the S&P 500 while increasing R&D spend by 17% year-over-year; Asia leads the world with most innovative companies

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Which companies lead the world in turning creative ideas into protected, commercialized inventions? The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world's premier provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, answered that question today with the announcement of its fourth annual 2014 Top 100 Global Innovators list. The program honors the 100 most innovative organizations globally, as measured by a series of patent-related metrics. The full report is available at http://www.top100innovators.com.

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Once again, the Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators demonstrate that investment in innovation leads to economic success. They outperformed the S&P 500 for the fourth consecutive year, achieving year-over-year market cap weighted revenue growth of 12.6 percent, roughly double the 6.85 percent annual revenue growth generated by S&P 500 companies. The 2014 Top 100 Global Innovators also generated the equivalent of US $3.69 trillion in revenue last year. And, they had an increase in R&D investment of more than double their NASDAQ counterparts; the Top 100 increased R&D spend by 16.9 percent, whereas NASDAQ's R&D investment jumped by 8.18 percent and S&P 500 by only 3.97 percent.

"The term innovation has become such an overused buzzword that it's easy to lose sight of what real innovation looks like. By focusing exclusively on quantitative analysis of global business' intellectual property portfolios, we are able to identify not only what companies are inventing the most, but also how aggressively they are protecting those inventions," said Basil Moftah, president, Thomson Reuters IP & Science. "This list of 100 companies represents the absolute vanguard of innovation – the organizations that are driving new breakthroughs, creating new jobs and igniting the global economy; we are honored to recognize their efforts."

The Thomson Reuters 2014 Top 100 Global Innovators, in alphabetical order, are:

3M Company

Furukawa Electric

Novartis

ABB

General Electric

NTT

Abbott Laboratories

Google

Olympus

Advanced Micro Devices

Hewlett-Packard

Oracle

Aisin Seiki

Hitachi

Panasonic

Alcatel-Lucent

Honda Motor Company

Philips

Altera

Honeywell International

Qualcomm

Apple

Huawei

Ricoh

Arkema

IBM

Roche

Asahi Glass

IFP Energies Nouvelles

Safran

AT&T

Intel

Saint-Gobain

BASF

ITRI

Samsung Electronics

BlackBerry

Johnson & Johnson

SanDisk

Boeing

Kao Corporation

Seagate

BOSCH

Kobe Steel

Seiko Epson

Brother Industries

Komatsu

Semiconductor Energy Laboratory

Canon

Kyocera

Sharp

Casio Computer

LG Electronics

Shin-Etsu Chemical

CNRS, The French National

Center for Scientific Research

Lockheed Martin

Siemens

LSI Corporation

Sony

Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique

LSIS

STMicroelectronics

Corning

Marvell

Sumitomo Electric

Covidien

MediaTek

Sumitomo Rubber Industries

Daikin Industries

Medtronic

Symantec

Denso Corporation

Micron

TDK

Dow Chemical Company

Microsoft

TE Connectivity

DuPont

Mitsubishi Electric

Texas Instruments

Emerson

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Tokyo Electron

Ericsson

NEC

Toshiba

ETRI

NGK Spark Plug

Toyota Motor Corporation

Fraunhofer

Nike

Xerox

Freescale Semiconductor

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal

Xilinx

FUJIFILM

Nissan Motor Company

Yamaha Corporation

Fujitsu

Nitto Denko


Asia Takes the Lead among Global Innovators
Asia is home to the largest share of Top 100 innovators for the first time this year, with 46 companies on the list hailing from the region. Of these, 39 are based in Japan, 4 in South Korea, 2 from Taiwan and, for the first time, a Chinese company (Huawei) has made the list. North America follows with 36, down from 46 last year, with 35 companies domiciled in the US and 1 in Canada. Europe contributed 18 honorees, with the largest representation coming from France (7), Switzerland (5) and Germany (4). The United Kingdom is noticeably absent from the Top 100 list again this year, despite aggressive tax legislation in the country designed to spur new innovation.

R&D Spending Growth Accelerates
The surge in R&D spending among Top 100 Global Innovators is also noteworthy. With the 100 organizations in the study spending U.S. $208 billion on R&D in 2013, the group outspent the constituents of S&P 500 at a rate of 4:1. On a year-over-year basis, Top 100 Global Innovators increased their total R&D spending by nearly 17 percent.

Industry Breakout
The Semiconductor and Electronic Components industry continued to lead all other industry sectors in 2014, with 21 representative companies, a 9 percent decrease from the previous year, but still a 50 percent increase since the Top 100 program's inception, when there were just 14 semiconductor companies on the list. Computer hardware was the next most prolific industry, with 13 companies, up 18 percent over the previous year. The Industrial sector contributed 8 companies to the Top 100 list, displacing the Automotive sector, which contributed 6 companies this year, down from 8 last year.

Pharma Continues to Increase Presence in Top 100
The Top 100 methodology, by virtue of its criteria, favors fast-moving, hyper-competitive industries such as semiconductors/electronic components and computer hardware, where product lifecycles are short and advancements in technology are demanded by users. This has historically impacted the inclusion of pharmaceutical firms, which tend to have longer R&D cycles. Despite this, for the second year in a row, a growing number of pharmaceutical companies, including Abbott Laboratories, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis and Roche, have cemented their presence on the Top 100 list by virtue of their strong global patent portfolios.

Smartphone Patent Wars Continue to Drive New Innovation
The intense competition in the smartphone space is on clear display in this year's Top 100 Global Innovators list, with the major players in the smartphone patent wars present: Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, Google and BlackBerry. Since its initial appearance last year, BlackBerry has made further strides to bring its business back to full strength with the formation of a separate business unit to handle its patent portfolio and the recent release of the BlackBerry Passport smartphone.

Methodology
The Thomson Reuters 2014 Top 100 Global Innovator methodology is based on four principle criteria: overall patent volume, patent grant success rate, global reach of the portfolio and patent influence as evidenced by citations. The peer-reviewed methodology was executed using Thomson Reuters Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI), Derwent Patents Citations Index™, Quadrilateral Patent Index™, and Thomson Innovation®, its IP and intelligence and collaboration platform. Comparative financial analysis was done using the Thomson Reuters Eikon platform.

For more information on the Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovator program and to download the full report, go to http://www.top100innovators.com.

Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.

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