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.


Type of Innovation Expenditure

Figure 8: The largest area of spend for Scotland was on ‘Acquisition of machinery and equipment, computer hardware and software’. This represented 52.6% of spending for Scotland.  For the UK this was ‘Internal Research and Development’, representing 50.0% of expenditure.

Bar chart showing share of innovation spend for different areas 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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