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Independent research · Global engineering R&D

Independent analysis of the transformation of engineering R&D.

Employment, finance and skills: independent analysis built on verifiable sources, supporting strategic decisions.

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§ 01 — Who it's for

Who this reading is for

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Sales & business development

Industry benchmarks and business cases to support commercial decisions and entry into new markets.

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Project management

Tracking project progress, costs and cash flows against the industry-wide picture.

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Investors & analysts

Margins and financial leverage by industry, read alongside the underlying employment data.

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Business-unit leadership & reporting

Industry benchmarks to guide decisions on investment, reconversion and reporting at global scale.

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§ 02 — The model

Open editorial, specialist research, advisory

Three tiers designed to build trust first, and commercial value after. Why this model →

Open

Free editorial

Open-source analysis on employment, margins and skills across engineering industries.

Reserved

Specialist reports

Modular deep dives — by industry, geography or single company — with a full dataset, methodology sheet and the option to request custom data.

On request

Dedicated advisory

Commissioned research for sales offices, project management and investors: from a single analytical question to a recurring monitoring program.

Vespri is run by Michele Casella, with years of experience in engineering R&D across the automotive and industrial industries. More about Vespri →

§ 03 — The method

Methodological transparency, data support, willingness to be challenged

Sources and limits, all on one page →

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Verifiable sources

Public statistical and institutional bodies, public company financial statements, job-posting aggregators and recruiting portals with accredited data access — always within each source's terms of use.

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Stated limits

Every report includes a methodology sheet: what the data captures, what it doesn't, and where a figure should be read as a lower bound, not an absolute value.

§ 04 — The research

The launch sequence

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Skills
Job postings Multi-industry

Cross-cutting skills across engineering industries

16,386 postings, 93 companies: what job postings actually ask for, and how real the Automotive → Defense/Aerospace pivot is, read skill by skill.

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Employment
Automotive Defense/Aerospace

Automotive and Defense: the two crossing trajectories

EU27 + Norway + UK, 2002–2026, several engineering segments. The net automotive job loss is concentrated in the last five years, driven by Germany and the VW galaxy; Defense/Aerospace flips sign between 2022 and 2026.

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Margins
Margins Financial leverage

Margins and leverage: the evolution of the transition

81 stocks, multi-industry, 2022–2025 window. Defense/Aerospace +6.6pp of EBITDA margin; Automotive −6.2pp with rising financial leverage — not just transition, but stress.

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Markets
Geopolitics US · Europe · Asia

What moves the market: geopolitics and stock reactions

January–July 2026: how engineering industries reacted on the stock market to the Iran-Israel war, the US tariffs ruling and the NATO summit in Ankara. With a dedicated deep dive on Defense/Aerospace.

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Defense/Aerospace
US · Europe · Asia Industrial capacity

Defense/Aerospace: industrial capacity as a constraint on demand

In H1 2026 global defense demand depended more on available industrial capacity than on political will: consolidation in Europe, linear growth in the US, extreme volatility in Asia.

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Energy
Oil & Gas Utility · Renewables

Energy: three distinct markets under a single classification

In H1 2026 the Energy industry comprised three markets moving in opposite directions, all shaped by the same geopolitical shock.

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