More than 25% of Catalan companies invest in R&D

Innovation in Catalonia is growing. That is according to data in Catalonia Trade and Investment’s (ACCIÓ) Innovation Barometer. Presented on Wednesday, the report shows that 25.4% of Catalan companies devoted a part of their budget to research and development (R&D) in 2016. The Barometer emphasizes that 58.2% of companies investing in R&D allocated more resources during 2016, 37.2% of them the same amount and only 4.6% investing less.