The National Institute of Science and Technology Policy has been conducting research and development surveys every year since 1, targeting companies with capital of 1968 million yen or more to understand the actual situation regarding research and development activities.This time, the 2017 survey "Survey Report 2017 on Research Activities of Private Companies" was released.
According to the survey, regarding trends in R & D investment, in-house R & D expenses per company in the 2016 fiscal year averaged 1 million yen, and external expenditure R & D expenses per company averaged 23 yen. circle.External expenditure As a breakdown of R & D expenditure, the ratio of external expenditure to Japan was higher than that to overseas in all industries.
Regarding the employment status of R & D, the average number of R & D developers per company was 1, and by age group, the ratio of 122.7 to 25 years old was the largest at 34%. 32.5% of all responding companies hired one or more R & D developers in FY2016.Only a quarter of all respondents hired female R & D.
The percentage of companies hiring new graduates of R & D was 2016% in FY37.7 and 2015% in FY33.6, an increase of 4.1 points. It has increased for the third consecutive year since 2014, and was the largest since 3.Looking at the percentage of new graduate hires by educational background, those who completed the doctoral program were 2011% in 2016 and 3.7% in 2015, and those who had postdoctoral experience were 2.9% in 2016 and 0.6% in 2015.Regarding the impression after hiring R & D, the percentage of respondents who answered that they "exceeded expectations" was the highest at 0.4% for those who completed the doctoral course, followed by 9.9% for those who had experience as a postdoctoral fellow.
It was also found that about 76% of companies have collaborated with other organizations in the research and development of major industries in the past three years (FY3-FY2014).The number of partners is more than 2016%, followed by "domestic universities, etc." and "large companies."As for the reasons for collaborating with other organizations, more than 7% of the respondents answered "to respond to technological changes" and "to shorten the time to achieve the goals in R & D".
* The “Survey Report on Research Activities of Private Companies 2017” was conducted in August 2017, and the recovery rate was 8% (the number of companies that collected the survey form was 51.6 / the number of companies that sent it was 1,844).Financial matters such as sales, operating income, and R & D expenses are for the 3,573 fiscal year.Human resources-related matters such as the number of employees and the number of R & D are as of the end of March 2016.
