dupont r&d cost
DuPont Cuts 2016 R&D Budget Ahead Of Merger With Dow Chemical. Continuing to pare research and development, DuPont plans to cut its spending on R&D in 2016 to between $1.6 billion and $1.7 billion, a roughly 10% decline from the $1.9 billion the firm devoted to research in 2015. DuPont revealed the budget cut while announcing a decline in fourth-quarter sales and earnings. The reduction will take the firmâs R&D spending to roughly the same amount it spent in 2010.