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Statistics
Innovation, NPD and R&D statistics, with the receipts
Three libraries of figures we compiled for our own work with food, beverage and consumer-goods innovation teams. Every statistic carries its source, its year and the sentence it came from, so you can quote it and defend it. We update the pages in place.
Innovation statistics
90+ figures on what companies spend on innovation, what they get back, where ideas come from and what AI changes.
New product development statistics
110+ figures on launch volumes, the real failure rate, cycle times, CPG launch performance and Stage-Gate benchmarks.
R&D statistics
70+ figures on global and corporate R&D spend, productivity, consumer-goods and food R&D budgets, AI and software.
How we work: we open the source page for every figure, copy the sentence containing the number, and record the organisation and year. Second-hand figures say "via" beside the source. Corrections to hello@quartzlabs.ai.
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