The IP and Science business of Thomson Reuters named the world's top 100 innovators for 2013; the list was released in alphabetical order with no ranking. The companies on this list brought in $4.5 trillion in revenue in 2013, spent $223 billion on R&D (which is how they manage to get on the list in the first place) and added 266,000 jobs. Consider that the names on the list outspent the 500 companies on the S&P 500 by 8.8% when it came to R&D...Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Apple-BlackBerry-named-among-the-top-100-innovative-companies-for-2013_id48034
