Financing and taxation
Research development innovation (RDI) inside companies

RDI funding [AG 470] and its difficulties are regularly raised by companies. However, R&D is strongly supported by regions, states and the European Union. There are four types of funding. Firstly, internal financing, or self-financing. This can sometimes be split into a portion of own funds aimed at maintaining skills, developing tools and building knowledge, and a portion of internal customers, who may be project managers, sales or production staff, and who are directly related to the products under development. This financing constitutes the bulk...