Innovations are new or improved goods, services or business processes that differ significantly from the firm’s previous goods, services or business processes and that have been introduced on the market or brought into use by the firm.
Every two years a number of indicators, such as the share of innovation-active enterprises, the share of turnover with innovations, innovation expenditures and public funding for innovation are collected as part of the Innovation Survey (CIS) among enterprises with ten or more employed persons.
The Innovation Survey is based on Implementing regulation (EU) 2022/1092 laying down technical specifications of data requirements for the topic “Innovation” pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council.