Volkswagen, Samsung, Intel and Microsoft[1] all spend more on R&D than Google does[2] and put that funding into a wide variety of areas just as Google does. Th

Volkswagen, Samsung, Intel and Microsoft[1] all spend more on R&D than Google does[2] and put that funding into a wide variety of areas just as Google does. There's also non-profit research think tanks like Battelle[3] [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research [2] http://web.archive.org/web/20160329190202/http://www.strategyand.pwc.com/global/home/what-we-think/innovation1000/top-innovators-spenders http://web.archive.org/web/20160329190202/http://www.strateg... [3] http://www.battelle.org/ http://www.battelle.org/