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Publication - Statistics

UK innovation survey 2023 – results for Scotland

Published
19 June 2024
Directorate
Chief Economist Directorate
Topic
Business, industry and innovation, Economy

Scotland's results from the UK Innovation Survey 2023, covering the three-year period from 2020 to 2022

Supporting documents

Context for Innovation

Broader innovators were asked about the importance of various factors to their decision to innovate.

Figure 8: In both Scotland and the UK, ‘Improving the quality of goods and services’ was the main driver for innovation. This was rated as ‘high importance’ by the largest percentage of broader innovator businesses.

Percentage of broader innovator businesses that rated each factor as ‘high importance’ in their decision to innovate, Scotland and the UK, 2020-2022.

A bar chart showing that In both Scotland and the UK, in 2020-2022, ‘Improving the quality of goods and services’ was the main driver for innovation. This was rated as ‘high importance’ by the largest percentage of broader innovator businesses (Scotland 42.0%, UK 45.5%).

Source: UK innovation survey 2023 – results for Scotland - tables from the Scottish Government. For Figure 8 data see Table 13.

Contact

Marina Curran

Business & Innovation Statistics

Office of the Chief Economic Adviser

e-mail: industrystatistics@gov.scot

 

For general enquiries about Scottish Government statistics please contact:

Office of the Chief Statistician

e-mail: statistics.enquiries@gov.scot

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