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Technological Innovation. Companies. By type of innovation

Technological Innovation. Companies. By type of innovation Catalonia
Companies with activities for technological innovation in the reference year Companies with technological innovation in the last three years % of total companies By type of innovation Product Process Product and process EIN companies in the last three years (1) % of total companies EIN companies applying for patents EIN companies cooperating with technological innovation
2017 3,406 4,092 14.3 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
2016 3,408 4,024 14.3 2,325 2,977 1,279 4,575 16.2 330 1,222
2015 3,632 4,303 15.4 2,480 3,202 1,378 4,869 17.4 357 1,284
2014 3,631 4,307 15.8 2,336 3,238 1,267 4,925 18.0 367 1,266
2013 3,396 4,057 14.4 2,302 2,985 1,231 4,703 16.7 439 1,112
2012 3,951 4,415 14.4 2,255 3,432 1,272 5,158 16.9 456 1,322
2011 4,305 5,434 17.1 2,842 4,238 1,647 6,062 19.1 614 1,266
2010 5,334 6,918 21.0 3,382 5,718 2,181 7,441 22.6 485 1,378
2009 7,045 8,599 23.6 4,172 7,297 2,870 9,506 26.1 533 1,674
2008 8,184 9,180 23.7 4,262 7,673 2,755 10,429 26.9 624 1,683
2007 7,248 10,470 27.4 5,648 7,947 3,125 11,190 29.3 868 1,350
2006 6,867 11,129 29.7 6,646 7,292 2,808 11,913 31.7 671 1,459
2005 7,158 10,727 30.2 6,703 7,976 3,952 11,217 31.6 745 1,792
2004 12,860 11,494 31.7 6,946 8,704 4,156 12,268 33.8 1,431 1,723
2003 6,513 7,921 21.5 5,351 6,069 3,499 9,119 24.7 690 1,618
2002 7,225 9,164 21.0 5,570 6,818 3,224 10,027 23.2 604 1,376
Source: Idescat, based on data from the INE's Survey of innovation in companies.
Notes:
Companies with head offices in Catalonia.
In 2018 a methodological change was made due to the application of the new revision of the Oslo Manual (2018). The concepts in the table have been obtained by approximation from the new methodology and, therefore, there has been a break in time series with the results of previous years.
(1) innovative industrial company - includes those companies with technological innovations that are in progress or unsuccessful in the same period.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: November 13, 2019.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Company
The smallest combination of legal units constituting an organisational unit for the production of goods or services, one having certain autonomy in terms of decision-making, principally for allocating the resources it has at its disposal.
Innovative company
Economic unit that has made a technological innovation.
Technological innovation
Set of scientific, technological, organisational, financial or commercial activities carried out by a company in order to modify or improve production processes, and introduce new products to the market.

Methodological aspects

Data on the process of innovation of the companies in Catalonia are obtained from the survey conducted by theINE. This survey addresses companies selected by a stratified random sampling method according to the methodology set out in the Oslo Manual. This manual contains all the methodological guidelines of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to measure innovation in companies.

With the revised Oslo Manual (2005), the definition of innovative company is extended. In addition to the companies with technological innovations, that include innovations in products and process, those companies with non-technological innovations, that include organizational and sales innovations, are also considered.

A technological innovation, as defined in this survey, is a new product (good or service) or a slightly improved one introduced to the market, or a new process or a slightly improved one introduced to enterprise.

The statistics provide the number of companies with technological innovation activities accordingto their spending in the different innovative activities (internal and external R&D,the purchase of machinery and equipment, other external knowledge for innovation, training, the introduction of innovations to the market, design and preparation fordistribution/production). They also provide data on the number of companies according to their type of technological innovation (product, process, and product and process), as well as the expense in these innovation activities.

EIN companies are companies with technological innovation in the specific period plus those that have technological innovations in progress or unsuccessful innovations in the same period.

An EIN company is understood to have applied for a patent if it has done so at any of the following offices: Spanish Patents and Brands Office, European Patent Office, United States Patents and Trademark Office, and also the patents in the Patent Cooperation Treaty.

It also provides information on the objectives at which this innovation has been aimed: objectives aimed at products, processes, employment, and other objectives.

non-technological innovation, such as is defined in this survey, consists of new organisational methods in the internal functioning of the company, of the workplace or in external relations, in addition to the implementation of new commercial strategies or concepts.

With respect to non-technological innovation, statistics provide information on the number of companies according to the types of non-technological innovation as well as the degree of importance of the objectives pursued by these organisational and marketing innovations.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".