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Useful Stats: R&D Performed by Industry within U.S., Per State, 2002-2006
SSTI has prepared a table displaying the amount of funding companies spent on R&D in each state from 2002 to 2006, the state's rank in 2006, the percent change over this five-year period, and the rank of that percent change. For the U.S. as a whole, industry-funded R&D was $193.8 billion in 2002 and rose to $247.7 billion in 2006 - a five-year jump of 27.8 percent. Note, the amounts in the chart are not indexed to a single year, but reflect values of when the data was released.
View the table at: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/111208t.htm.
California led the country with $58.4 billion in R&D funding from industry in 2006. This was followed by Michigan ($16.5 billion), Massachusetts ($15.6 billion), New Jersey ($14.6 billion), and Texas at $13.3 billion. Washington, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut rounded out the top ten states.
Alabama realized the largest percent increase from 2002 to 2006, rising from $846 million in 2002 to $1.83 billion in 2006 - a gain of 117 percent. New Mexico was the only other state to witness more than a doubling spent on R&D by industry. Rounding out the top ten, the other states to see at least a 50 percent increase were South Dakota, Missouri, Colorado, Virginia, Nevada, Montana, New Hampshire, and Hawaii. Over this period, 27 states and the District of Columbia experienced a larger percent increase than the U.S. as a whole.
The data for this table comes from Table 5 of the National Science Foundation's their annual briefs describing industrial spending for R&D. They can be accessed at: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/industry/.