Between 2020-2022, 44.7% of enterprises had innovation activities (48.0% between 2018-2020 and 32.4% between 2016-2018). Enterprises with 250 or more persons employed recorded the highest percentage, with 79.1%. By sector of activity, Information and communication (71.2%) and Financial and insurance activities (65.6%) stood out. The regions with the highest percentage of innovative enterprises were Greater Lisbon and the Centre, with 50.0% and 45.8%, respectively.

In this period, 22.6% of enterprises introduced product innovations, an increase of 0.3 pp compared to the previous period, and 40.4% introduced process innovations, a decrease of 2.3 pp compared to the 2018-2020 period (42.7%), but an increase of 12.4 pp compared to the 2016-2018 three-year period.

In 2022, 15.2% of turnover resulted from new or improved products, with increases compared to 2020 and 2018, with the Information and communication sector standing out (30.9%). In the same year, expenditure on innovation activities reached 3,382.4 million euros, 41.3% of which from enterprises in Greater Lisbon.

Between 2020-2022, 44.7% of enterprises were innovative and of these, 51.9% introduced innovations with environmental benefits obtained in the enterprise and/or during consumption or use of the goods or services by the end user, regardless of the degree of contribution to environmental protection (significant or insignificant).

In 2022, innovative enterprises spent a total of 1,209.1 million euros on innovation with these types of benefits, totalling 35.7% of total expenditure on innovation activities.

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