UK innovation survey 2023 – results for Scotland
Scotland's results from the UK Innovation Survey 2023, covering the three-year period from 2020 to 2022
Innovation Activity by Size
Businesses have been grouped into size categories based on their number of employees.
Figure 3: In both Scotland and the UK, small (10-49 employees) businesses were least likely to be innovation active in 2020-2022 (30.1% Scotland, 34.4% UK). Businesses in Scotland with 100-249 employees were most likely to be innovation active (47.0%) whereas in the UK it’s businesses with 250+ employees (49.5%).
Percentage of all businesses (with 10+ employees) that were innovation active by banded number of employees, Scotland and the UK, 2020-2022.
Source: UK innovation survey 2023 – results for Scotland - tables from the Scottish Government. For Figure 3 data see Table 3.
Figure 4: The share of business that were innovation active fell between 2018-2020 and 2020-2022 across all business sizes in Scotland.
Percentage of all businesses (with 10+ employees) that were innovation active by banded number of employees, Scotland, 2010-2012 to 2020-2022.
Source: UK innovation survey 2023 – results for Scotland - tables from the Scottish Government. For Figure 4 data see Table 3.
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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