Appendix table 18. Factors hampering innovation activities by size category of personnel 2014-2016, high or medium importance, share of enterprises with innovation activity
Industry | Size category of person- nel |
Number of enter- prises |
Lack of internal finance |
Lack of credit or private equity |
Inno- vation costs too high |
Lack of skilled employ- ees |
Lack of collabo- ration partners |
No govern- ment grants or subsidies |
Uncertain market demand |
Too much compe- tition |
% | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | |||
All NACE - Total | 10-49 | 3950 | 39.2 | 23.6 | 45.7 | 45.0 | 25.1 | 27.0 | 36.3 | 39.7 |
50-249 | 1251 | 37.7 | 15.7 | 45.7 | 53.5 | 22.0 | 24.2 | 38.7 | 39.9 | |
250- | 299 | 32.0 | 7.1 | 37.3 | 46.7 | 18.5 | 24.2 | 42.0 | 39.3 | |
Total | 5499 | 38.5 | 20.9 | 45.2 | 47.0 | 24.0 | 26.2 | 37.2 | 39.8 | |
Manu- facturing |
10-49 | 1768 | 45.7 | 25.2 | 49.1 | 47.8 | 23.5 | 29.9 | 39.1 | 42.5 |
50-249 | 684 | 44.8 | 21.0 | 48.7 | 56.0 | 26.7 | 28.9 | 42.7 | 45.4 | |
250- | 176 | 40.3 | 8.3 | 36.5 | 48.7 | 21.4 | 32.5 | 43.1 | 41.1 | |
Total | 2628 | 45.1 | 23.0 | 48.1 | 50.0 | 24.2 | 29.8 | 40.3 | 43.2 | |
Services | 10-49 | 2182 | 34.0 | 22.3 | 42.9 | 42.7 | 26.4 | 24.7 | 34.0 | 37.5 |
50-249 | 568 | 29.1 | 9.4 | 42.1 | 50.5 | 16.3 | 18.4 | 33.9 | 33.3 | |
250- | 122 | 20.0 | 5.4 | 38.5 | 43.8 | 14.4 | 12.2 | 40.4 | 36.7 | |
Total | 2871 | 32.4 | 19.0 | 42.5 | 44.2 | 23.9 | 22.9 | 34.3 | 36.6 |
Source: Innovation 2016, Statistics Finland
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Director in charge: Sami Saarikivi
Updated 12.4.2018
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