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Publication - Statistics

UK innovation survey 2021: results for Scotland

Last updated
17 August 2022 - see all updates
Directorate
Chief Economist Directorate
Topic
Business, industry and innovation

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

Supporting documents

Constraints to Innovation

Figure 12: Of factors constraining innovation activities, ‘Issues related to COVID-19 pandemic’ was ranked as of ‘high importance’ by the largest proportion of Scottish broader innovators (38.1%). This was followed by ‘Excessive perceived economic risks’ (19.6%). These were also the top constraining factors for the UK as a whole.

Bar chart showing share of broader innovation active businesses that rated constraints to innovation as of high importance in Scotland and the UK in 2018-20

In Scotland and the UK, ‘Issues related to COVID-19 pandemic’ were cited as of high importance by the highest proportion of businesses of all sizes (Table 19).

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

First published
28 June 2022
Last updated
17 August 2022 - show all updates

  1. The 'Scientific Research and Development' sector was incorrectly labelled as ‘Research and experimental development on social sciences and humanities’ when this publication was first released. This has now been corrected. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this error.

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