• Data reference period
• Geographic localization (NUTS - 2024)
• Type of process innovation

• REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
• PERSONS EMPLOYED:  Persons who during the reference period participated in the business of the enterprise/institution, regardless of the duration of this participation, under the following conditions: a) staff bound to the enterprise/institution by an employment contract, receiving remuneration in return; b) staff which has ties to the enterprise/institution, who, for not being bound by an employment contract, does not receive regular remuneration for the hours worked or the labour supplied (e.g. owner-managers, unpaid family workers, active members of cooperatives); c) staff with ties to other enterprises/institutions who worked at the enterprise/institution and receive remuneration directly from it; d) persons in the above situations, absent for a period of no more than one month due to holidays, labour dispute, vocational training, as well as disease and occupational accident. The following persons are not considered to be staff: i) those in the situations described in a), b), and c) above and who are absent for a period of over one month; ii) workers with ties to the enterprise/institution who moved to other enterprises/institutions, receiving remuneration directly from the latter; iii) workers in the enterprise/institution whose remuneration is borne by other enterprises/institutions (e.g. temporary workers); iv) self-employed workers (e.g. service providers, that use the so-called 'recibos verdes', which is the popular name of the receipt form).
• BUSINESS PROCESS INNOVATION:  Innovation in a new or improved process implemented to achieve more effectiveness, resource efficiency, credibility, resilience, accessibility, adequacy and utility for those involved in the process, whether internal or external to the process, and cover the following functional areas: production of goods and services, logistics and distribution, marketing and sales, information and communication systems, management and administration, and product and process development
• INNOVATION ACTIVITIES:  Activities that aim the development of product or process innovation and which may imply the allocation of resources and the specific commitment to strategies, methods and procedures.
• INOVATION:  Creation and development of a new or improved product or process (or combination of the two) in a unit/entity, which differs significantly from previous products or processes and is made available to potential users (product) or applied to that unit/entity (process).
• ENTERPRISE:  Legal entity (natural or legal person) that is an organisational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations.

[Enterprises with 10 and more persons employed (NACE Rev. 2, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S) with process innovation/ Enterprises with 10 and more persons employed (NACE Rev. 2, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S) with innovation activities]*100