Conglomerates spend more on R&D, intellectual property in 2014: report
Apr 5, 2015
South Korea's top conglomerates spent more on research and development and intellectual property to seek new growth engines in 2014, while cutting back on facility-related investments, a report showed Sunday.A total of 274 firms belonging to the country's 30 largest business groups injected 35.31 trillion won ($32.31 billion) into R&D for the whole of 2014, up 1.6 percent from the year before, according to the report by CEO Score, a local corporate researcher.The amount for intangible asset-rela