UK innovation survey 2021: results for Scotland

Scotland's results from the UK Innovation Survey 2021, covering the three-year period from 2018 to 2020.


Innovation Activity

Figure 1: Between 2016-2018 and 2018-2020 innovation activity increased in both Scotland (32.2% to 39.0%) and the UK (37.6% to 44.9%).

Figure 2: In Scotland, the proportions of businesses performing product, process and wider innovation increased over the latest period.

Line chart showing share of businesses that are wider innovators, product innovators and process innovators in Scotland from 2010-12 to 2018-20

Figure 3: In Scotland, the increase in wider innovation was due to increased activity across all the wider innovation types.

Line chart showing share of businesses engaging in the four types of wider innovation activity in Scotland from 2010-12 to 2018-20

Contact

For enquiries about this publication please contact:

Marina Curran

Business & Innovation Statistics

Office of the Chief Economic Adviser

e-mail: marina.curran@gov.scot or industrystatistics@gov.scot

 

For general enquiries about Scottish Government statistics please contact:

Office of the Chief Statistician

Telephone: 0131 244 0442

e-mail: statistics.enquiries@gov.scot

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