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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.

Figure 1: Between 2016-2018 and 2018-2020 innovation activity increased in both Scotland (32.2% to 39.0%) and the UK (37.6% to 44.9%).

Figure 2: In Scotland, the proportions of businesses performing product, process and wider innovation increased over the latest period.

Line chart showing share of businesses that are wider innovators, product innovators and process innovators in Scotland from 2010-12 to 2018-20

Figure 3: In Scotland, the increase in wider innovation was due to increased activity across all the wider innovation types.

Line chart showing share of businesses engaging in the four types of wider innovation activity in Scotland from 2010-12 to 2018-20

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Marina Curran

Business & Innovation Statistics

Office of the Chief Economic Adviser

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Office of the Chief Statistician

Telephone: 0131 244 0442

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