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 – by Sector

Figure 6: Businesses in the ‘Scientific Research and Development’ sector were the most likely to be innovation active in Scotland (79.3%) and the UK (76.1%). Businesses in the ‘Real estate services’ and ‘Accommodation and food services’ sectors were the least likely to be innovation active in Scotland (24.0% and 24.2% respectively).

A similar pattern was found for broader innovators and wider innovators (Table 4).

Figure 7: In 2018-2020, Scottish businesses within the broad sector ‘Manufacturing’ (29.4%) were the most likely to perform product innovation.  Businesses in the ‘Construction’ sector were least likely (9.1%).  Businesses in the ‘Manufacturing’ sector were also the most likely to perform process innovation (22.5%), and ‘Accommodation and food services’ businesses were the least likely (5.3%).

Bar chart showing share of businesses that are product innovators or process innovators in Scotland and the UK in 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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