I'm looking for the total amount of money the semiconductor industry
(global) has spent on research and development each year for the past
few years, ideally for the past decade or more.


http://www.sia-online.org/ind_facts.cfm gives several key indicators

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Request for Question Clarification by techtor-ga on 18 Aug 2003 23:11 PDT

This has been quite harder than most of us thought. It's even possible
the information you seek can only be acquired from sources in the
Internet that you have to pay for, or in offline (printed) sources.

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Clarification of Question by polymerchicken-ga on 19 Aug 2003 20:43 PDT

Thanks for your effort. I have been researching into this as well for
a very long time with little results - I would have thought that this
would be easy to find. This is actually a crucial part of my research
project,  but it seems very hard to find data. Meanwhile, I will keep
my question open just in case.

Again, much thanks for your effort.

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Clarification of Question by polymerchicken-ga on 19 Aug 2003 20:46 PDT

By the way, I have tried to find places where you can buy this
information, and it seems that it would be contained in the reports by
companies that are sold for thousands of dollars.
And I have been through university libraries, again, to no
avail...brainwracking