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.
Co-operation Arrangements
In Scotland, the proportion of broader innovators who had co-operation arrangements on innovation activities increased between 2016-2018 and 2018-2020 (from 42.3% to 55.6%). The UK saw a similar increase over this period (from 48.8% to 57.9%).
Figure 10: Suppliers of equipment, materials, services and software were the most common co-operation partners in both Scotland and the UK. This was the same for businesses of all sizes (Table 14).
Figure 11: When considering sources of information for innovation activities, the largest proportion of broader innovators ranked ‘within your business or enterprise group’ as of ‘high importance’. This was the same for businesses in Scotland and the UK.
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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