Table O-5
R&D expenditures by majority-owned affiliates in United States and R&D performed abroad by majority-owned foreign affiliates of U.S. parent companies: Selected years, 1990–2004
(Millions of dollars)
 
Year   U.S. affiliates of
foreign MNCs
  Foreign affiliates
of U.S. MNCs
  Balance
 
1990   8,511   10,187   –1,676
1992   10,745   11,084   -339
1994   12,671   11,877   794
1996   15,641   14,039   1,602
1998   22,375   14,664   7,711
2000   26,180   20,547   5,633
2002   27,507   22,793   4,714
2004   29,900   27,529   2,371
 

MNCs = multinational corporations

SOURCES: U.S. affiliates of foreign MNCs data from appendix table 4-43; foreign affiliates of U.S. MNCs data for 2002 and 2004 from appendix table 4-45; for 1994 to 2000 from National Science Board, Science and Engineering Indicators 2006, appendix table 4-51; and for 1990 and 1992 from Science and Engineering Indicators 1998, appendix table 4-51.

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