Between 2020-2022, 44.7% of enterprises had innovation activities (48.0% between 2018-2020 and 32.4% between 2016-2018). By type of innovation, 22.6% of enterprises introduced product innovation (goods or services) and 40.4% introduced process innovation (22.3% and 42.7%, in the same order, in the 2018-2020 period).

79.1% of enterprises with 250 or more persons employed were innovative, while in the 10 to 249 persons employed bracket, the percentage of enterprises with innovation activities was 43.9%. By economic activity, the Information and communication sector (71.2%) had the highest proportion of innovative enterprises, followed by Financial services (65.6%), Distributive trade (48.4%) and Other services (46.6%).

In the same period, 51.9% of innovative enterprises introduced innovations with environmental benefits obtained in the enterprise and/or during the consumption or use of the goods or services by the end user, of which 49.6% were innovations with environmental benefits obtained in the enterprise and 42.0% were innovations with benefits obtained during the consumption or use of the goods or services by the end user.

7.2% of enterprises were innovative and cooperated with other enterprises or organizations in R&D and/or other innovation activities between 2020-2022.

In 2022, the total expenditure on innovation activities reached 3 882,2 million euros, 41.9% more than in 2020, and represents around 1,0% of total turnover from enterprises (the same proportion in 2020).

15.2% of enterprises' turnover in 2022 resulted from the introduction of new or improved products (+1.4 p.p. compared to 2020 and +4.0 p.p. compared to 2018), with 10.8% resulting from the introduction of new goods or services for the enterprise and 4.4% from the introduction of new goods or services for the market (9.5% and 4.3% in 2020, respectively).

Between 2020-2022, 58.8% of enterprises considered the focus on satisfying regular customer groups as highly important for their economic performance.

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