| The data concern refer to industrial enterprises, i.e. those whose main activity is classified in one of the 4 sections of the NACE Classification 2007 classification: B – Mining and quarrying, C – manufacturing, D – Electricity, gas, steam, and air conditioning supply E – Water supply; sewerage and waste management and remediation activities.
Innovation activities is the totality of scientific, technical, organizational, financial and commercial activities that lead or are intended to lead to the implementation of innovation. Some of these actions are innovative, while others are not new, but necessary to implement innovation. Innovation activities also include research and experimental development (R&D) activities that are not directly linked to the creation of a specific innovation.
An innovative undertaking is an undertaking that in a given reporting period carried out product or process innovation activities or carried out at least one innovative project (product or process) during that period that was discontinued or abandoned during the period considered (not successfully completed) or was not completed by the end of that period (i.e. continued).
The Innovation Survey is based on an international methodology (Oslo Manual).
Financial outlays incurred for innovative activities in the field of product and process innovation include outlays on:
- purchase of knowledge from external sources in the form of patents, unpatented inventions (solutions), designs, utility and industrial models, licenses, disclosures of know-how, trademarks and technical services related to the implementation of product and process innovations;
- purchase of software related to the implementation of product and process innovations;
- purchase and installation of machinery and technical equipment, purchase of means of transport, tools, instruments, movables, equipment and expenditure on the construction, extension and modernisation of buildings for the implementation of product and process innovations;
- staff training related to innovation activities from the design phase to the marketing phase (both expenditure on the acquisition of external training services and expenditure on in-house training);
- marketing of new or significantly improved products (expenditure on preliminary market research, market testing and advertising of new or significantly improved products introduced to the market);
- research and development (R&D) related to the development of new or significantly improved products and processes, carried out by own development facilities or acquired from other entities;
- other preparations for product or process innovation (e.g. feasibility studies, testing and evaluation of new or significantly improved products and processes, standard software development and improvement, instrumentation, engineering and preparatory work.
The innovation survey takes into account all expenditure on current and investment product and process innovations incurred in the reporting year for works that were successful (i.e. implementation of the innovation), not completed (continued) and discontinued or abandoned, regardless of the sources of their financing. |
