Contacts

• In 2000 more than $12 billion was invested in industrial R&D, the third-highest total in the nation. Nearly two thirds of that was in manufacturing — especially pharmaceuticals, computers, and electronic products. Princeton’s Pharmaceutical Research Institute alone spent more than $2 billion in R&D in 2001.
   

• New Jersey has more than 25 contract research centers.
   

• Nearly $60 million in R&D was outsourced to New Jersey from other parts of the country.
   

• R&D spending in the university and college system ranked 17th in the nation in 2001 ($609 million). Rutgers, Princeton, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry -- all among the top-100 R&D universities in the country -- accounted for more than $400 million in R&D.
   

• In 2002 New Jersey ranked seventh in the United States for venture capital investment with $3.5 billion — the majority in telecommunications, biotechnology, software, and IT.

The Biotechnology Council
of New Jersey

Health Care Institute
of New Jersey

 New Jersey Technology
 Council

New Jersey
 Research & Development
 Council