in few hands

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD in English, has prepared a report analyzing the budgets of the 2000 most important players in R+D+i (both public and private) concluding that despite having increased investment in this section, the data is not entirely positive. On the one hand, 60% of the world budget is the responsibility of only 250 companies with Volkswagen, Samsung and Intel at the forefront, on the other hand, public spending from governments has been reduced in an exaggerated way in the last ten years .

The OECD calls this information worrying for two different reasons, the first; the concentration of investment in a few hands, which could lead to monopolies. The second reason is none other than the secondary role that states seem to accept and/or promote in order to become secondary actors in research and development.