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Innovation activity
Innovation activity includes all developmental, financial and commercial activities, undertaken by a firm, which are intended to or result in an innovation.
Statistics using the definition
Validity of the definition
- Valid
Innovation activity is understood to mean all operations that produce, or whose purpose is to produce, new or improved products and processes.
Statistics using the definition
Validity of the definition
- 1 January 1998 - 31 December 2015
Source organisation
- OECD
Related concepts
Innovative activity is understood to mean all operations that produce, or whose purpose is to produce, technologically new or improved products and processes.
Statistics using the definition
Validity of the definition
- 1 January 1995 - 31 December 1997
Source organisation
- OECD
Related concepts
Source organisation
- Tilastokeskus
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