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U.S. Business R&D Highly Concentrated in a Few States
About 70 percent of 2011 U.S. business R&D spending occurred in 10 states, according to a report from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES). California leads the country in overall business R&D, and nearly every top industry. Both the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland and Los Angeles-Long Beach area rank in the top three areas for business research. Other top states include Washington, with high spending on software R&D, and Texas, a leader in semiconductor and mining research. Read the InfoBrief…