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UK Innovation Survey 2001
Preliminary results of the UK Innovation Survey 2001 which covers enterprises across the whole of the UK business sector (1998 to 2000).
This article presents the preliminary results of the UK Innovation Survey 2001 which covers enterprises across the whole of the UK business sector over the three-year period 1998 to 2000.
Encouraging business innovation in the UK is a central objective of the DTI and therefore measuring the level of innovation activity and identifying where best to target innovation policies is vital. An enterprise is defined as innovation active if it has:
introduced new products or process in the time period, has been involved in innovation projects not yet completed or of a long term nature, or has had expenditure or collaborative agreements with other organisations regarding innovation. The article investigates why enterprises innovate, the obstacles they encounter, the types of institutions they co-operate with and the sources of information that they rely on.
A further article incorporating the results of a smaller "top-up" survey and a regional analysis will be published in the Summer. The survey was conducted by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) as part of a wider EU third Community Innovation Survey (CIS) which is conducted by all EU member states every four years (CIS2 was in 1997).
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