This statistic depicts R&D expenditures of some of the global leading companies in biotechnology in 2020. In that year, Danish biopharmaceutical manufacturer Novo Nordisk spent around 2.37 billion U.S. dollars on research and development.
Select leading global biotechnology companies' R&D expenditure in 2020*
(in million U.S. dollars)
* The statistic includes pure-play or predominantly biotech companies. All values are rounded. The statistic was assembled from the annual/financial reports of the regarding companies.
** Based on exchange rate at December 31, 2020.
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