Share of businesses involved in innovation activities since 2010-2012
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Information on the proportion of businesses involved in innovation activity from the UK Innovation Survey (UKIS) by type of innovation activity and number of employees. The UK definition of innovation is based on an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) definition, outlined in the Oslo Manual 2018.
‘Active’ innovators develop:
• new or significantly improved product (good or service) or process
• new or significantly improved forms of organisation, business structures, practices or marketing concepts/strategies
• innovation which is incomplete, scaled back or abandoned
‘Broad’ innovators develop:
• new or significantly improved product (good or service) or process
• new or significantly improved forms of organisation, business structures, practices or marketing concepts/strategies
• engage in innovation which is incomplete, reduced or abandoned
• investment in internal research and development, training, external knowledge, machinery and equipment for innovation
‘Wider’ innovators develop:
• new or significantly improved forms of organisation, business structures, practices or marketing concepts/strategies
The UK Innovation Survey (UKIS) 2021 is the twelfth UKIS. UKIS has been conducted every two years since 2005. The survey is funded and developed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and administered by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
UKIS 2021 sampled 31,928 UK enterprises with ten or more employees. The survey was voluntary and was conducted primarily through an electronic questionnaire. Businesses that did not complete an electronic response were offered a telephone interview. Responses were received from 13,598 businesses UK-wide - 1,451 of these responses were from businesses based in Scotland.
UKIS 2021 asked businesses for information on their innovation activities over the three-year period from 2018 to 2020. If information was not available for calendar years, they were asked that their return covered the nearest financial years. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic began in Q1 2020 and is likely to have had an impact on business innovation towards the later part of the three-year period they were reporting on. More information is available in the UKIS 2021 Results for Scotland publication and from the BEIS publication.
Statistical disclosure control is applied to tables in order to maintain the confidentiality of the data. Cells based on business counts below a minimum threshold are withheld from publication.
These are Official Statistics and follow the high professional standards set out in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics and the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics (Scotland) Order 2008.
Due to smaller sample sizes for sub-groups, the survey's estimates may be affected by sampling errors and therefore apparent differences of a few percentage points may not reflect real differences in the population.
The UK Innovation Survey (UKIS) 2021 is the twelfth UKIS. UKIS has been conducted every two years since 2005. The survey is funded and developed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and administered by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The results are based on weighted data in order to be representative of the population of firms. The responses were weighted back to the total business population of those in the Inter Departmental Business Register.
UKIS 2021 sampled 31,928 UK enterprises with ten or more employees. The survey was voluntary and was conducted primarily through an electronic questionnaire. Businesses that did not complete an electronic response were offered a telephone interview. Responses were received from 13,598 businesses UK-wide - 1,451 of these responses were from businesses based in Scotland.
This report summarises the key findings from this survey for Scotland. Comparisons are made with the UK Innovation Survey 2019, 2017, 2015 and 2013. It also makes comparisons with the results for the UK as a whole.
A copy of the UKIS questionnaire is available online.
The UKIS is carried out biennially and businesses are asked to report on their innovation activities in the preceding three-year period – the latest survey for 2021 asks businesses about their innovation activities in the 2018-20 period.
Revisions and corrections to this publication are dealt with in accordance with the Scottish Government's published policy.
This slice of multidimensional data is not a Linked Data resource in the database: it's a virtual resource (i.e. you can't query it by SPARQL). But does have a permanent unique URL which can be bookmarked.
A linked data-orientated view of dimensions and values
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Innovation Activity
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/innovationActivity
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Abandoned innovation
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/concept/innovation-activity/abandoned-innovation
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Number Of Employees
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/numberOfEmployees
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Reference Area
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refArea
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Reference Period
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refPeriod
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Measure Type
http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#measureType
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