Published: 7 June 2012
Innovation involves the whole value chain, customers and users included in development
Forty-six per cent of enterprises had innovation activity related to products and processes in 2008-2010. Innovations are developed throughout the value chain, but the most frequent reporters of innovation activity were system suppliers. Altogether 15 per cent of the total turnover of enterprises in 2010 came from product innovations launched on the market during 2008-2010. These data derive from a survey of Statistics Finland concerning innovation activity among enterprises.
Prevalence of adoption of innovations in production value chain by main position 2008–2010, share of enterprises
Between 2008 and 2010, the general characteristics of innovation activity related to products and services remained quite unchanged from the 2006-2008 period. One-third of enterprises launched product innovations on the market. Sixty per cent of these enterprises brought out products that were new to their market. One enterprise in six that had made product innovations reckoned that they had brought on the market an innovation with characteristics that were the world’s first. Innovation expenditure reported by enterprises totalled EUR 7.3 billion in 2010.
The innovation survey now also studied for the first time innovation activity in human health and social work activities. The share of enterprises having made product or process innovations was 44 per cent, i.e. almost the same as the average for other industries. Enterprises in human health and social work activities reported their total expenditure on innovation activity as EUR 80 million in 2010. They reported more often than other enterprises activities like outsourcing of expertise, and training related to innovation activity. Nearly one-half of the enterprises had adopted marketing and organisational innovations and 57 per cent had engaged in broadly defined innovation activity.
The vast majority of all enterprises having engaged in innovation activity reported that they had incorporated user information, users or users’ product ideas into their innovation activity and production of innovative products. The exploitation of information from customer feedback systems, market surveys or studies of user needs, for instance, and joint development with users become more common as the enterprise size grows. By contrast, the integration of products modified or developed by users into production is nearly equally widespread irrespective of enterprise size.
The survey covered enterprises employing at least ten persons in manufacturing (incl. mining and quarrying, electricity, gas and air conditioning supply, and water supply and waste management) and in certain services.
Source: Innovation 2010, Statistics Finland
Inquiries: Mervi Niemi 09 1734 3263, tiede.teknologia@stat.fi
Director in charge: Leena Storgårds
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- Reviews
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- 1. Introduction (7.6.2012)
- 2. Innovation activity related to product and process innovations 2008-2010 (7.6.2012)
- 3. Marketing and organisational innovations 2008-2010 (7.6.2012)
- 4. Creativity (7.6.2012)
- 5. User orientation in corporate innovation activity and the production of innovative products 2008 - 2010 (7.6.2012)
- 6. Innovation activity in human health and social work activities 2008 - 2010 (7.6.2012)
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- Appendix table 1. Prevalence of innovation activity by form of enterprise, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 2. Prevalence of innovation activity by enterprise's primary position in the production value chain, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 3. Prevalence of innovation activity in human health and social work activities by industry, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 4. Prevalence of innovation activity in human health and social work activities by form of enterprise, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 5. Prevalence of innovation activity in human health and social work activities by enterprise's primary position in the production value chain, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 6. Prevalence of product (good or service) innovations in human health and social work activities, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 7. Prevalence of process innovations in human health and social work activities, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 8. Developers of goods innovations by size category of personnel, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises with innovations (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 9. Developers of goods innovations by industry, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises with innovations (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 10. Developers of goods innovations in human health and social work activities by industry, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises with innovations (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 11. Developers of service innovations by size category of personnel, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises with innovations (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 12. Developers of service innovations by industry, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises with innovations (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 13. Developers of service innovations in human health and social work activities by industry, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises with innovations (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 14. Enterprises with product innovations by degree of novelty of innovations and size category of personnel, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises with product innovations (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 15. Enterprises with product innovations by degree of novelty of innovations and industry, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises with product innovations (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 16. Enterprises with product innovations in human health and social work activities by degree of novelty of innovations and industry, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises with product innovations (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 17. Proportions of product innovations and unchanged products of turnover by size category of personnel, 2010 (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 18. Proportions of product innovations and unchanged products of turnover by industry, 2010 (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 19. Proportions of product innovations and unchanged products of turnover in human health and social work activities by industry, 2010 (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 20. Enterprise's innovation as first by largest area and size category of personnel, 2008-2010, share of enterprises with product innovations (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 21. Developers of process innovations by size category of personnel, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises with innovations (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 22. Developers of process innovations by industry, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises with process innovations (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 23. Developers of process innovations in human health and social work activities by industry, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises with innovations (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 24. Prevalence of ongoing and abandoned innovation activities in human health and social work activities by industry, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 25. Prevalence of RD by enterprise's primary position in the production value chain, 2006 - 2008, share of enterprises with innovation activity (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 26. Prevalence of other innovation activities by enterprise's primary position in the production value chain, 2006 - 2008, share of enterprises with innovation activity (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 27. Prevalence of RD in human health and social work activities by industry, 2006 - 2008, share of enterprises with innovation activity (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 28. Prevalence of other innovation activities in human health and social work activities by industry, 2006 - 2008, share of enterprises with innovation activity (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 29. Innovation expenditure, 2010, EUR million (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 30. Public financing of innovation activity in human health and social work activities by industry, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises with innovation activity (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 31. Information sources for innovation activity in human health and social work activities, 2008 - 2010, importance of sources, share of enterprises with innovation activity (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 32. Co-operation in innovation activity by location of co-operating partner, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises with innovation activity (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 33. Co-operation in innovation activity in human health and social work activities by significance of co-operating partner, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises with innovation activity relating to product and process innovations (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 34. Factors preventing/hampering product and process innovation activities, 2008 - 2010, importance of factors, share of non-innovative enterprises (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 35. Factors hampering product and process innovation activities in human health and social work activities, 2008 - 2010, importance of factors, share of enterprises with innovation activities (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 36. Factors preventing/hampering product and process innovation activities in human health and social work activities, 2008 - 2010, importance of factors, share of non-innovative enterprises (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 37. Prevalence of marketing and organisational innovations by form of enterprise, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 38. Prevalence of marketing and organisational innovations by enterprise's primary position in the production value chain 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 39. Prevalence of marketing and organisational innovations in human health and social work activities by industry, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 40. Prevalence of organisational innovations in human health and social work activities, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 41. Prevalence of marketing innovations in human health and social work activities, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 42. Methods used to stimulate new ideas and creativity, 2008 - 2010, success of method, share of enterprises with innovation activities (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 43. Methods used to stimulate new ideas and creativity, 2008 - 2010, success of method, share of non-innovative enterprises (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 44. Methods used to stimulate new ideas and creativity in human health and social work activities, 2008 - 2010, success of method, share of enterprises with innovation activities (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 45. Methods used to stimulate new ideas and creativity in human health and social work activities, 2008 - 2010, success of method, share of non-innovative enterprises (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 46. Incorporation of users and user information in enterprises' innovation activities, methods and their importance, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises with innovation activity (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 47. Incorporation of users and user information in enterprises' innovation activities, methods and their importance in human health and social work activities, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises with innovation activity (7.6.2012)
- Appendix table 48. Incorporation of users and user information in enterprises' innovation activities by size category of personnel, 2008 - 2010, share of enterprises with innovation activity (7.6.2012)
Updated 7.6.2012
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