Innovation in companies; 2002-2004

CBS conducts an Innovation Survey every two years. This will create an an overview of the state of play of innovation Dutch companies. The research includes a great diversity of aspects of the concept of innovation. One survey covers three reporting years (this is the reporting period). The last year in one survey is same as the first year in the next. Because in every new Innovation survey, new topics will become the results per survey are included in a separate table displayed. The Dèze table contains all the results of the Innovation Survey for the reporting period 2002-2004. The first Innovation Survey took place over the period 1994-1996. From this first reporting period up to the 2000-2002 reporting period, the survey conducted at companies established in the Netherlands with 10 or more employees. In the 1996-1998 and 1998-2000 reporting periods, companies with 1 to 10 employees were surveyed. From the reporting period 2002-2004, the population covers all holdings in The Netherlands with 10 or more persons employed. The main difference between workers and employed persons is that employees only concern persons who are on the payroll of a company to prevent, while to the employed persons also the owners and assisting family members not included in the payroll are counted. For the exact definitions, see the link to Methods/Concepts: <a href=“https://www.cbs.nl/NR/exeres/76ABB32E-7C99-4D65-84E0-1B740B64A0F7” >Methods/concepts. Data available from: 1994-1996 Status of the figures: final Changes compared to the previous version: no The results of the Innovation Survey 2004-2006 will be presented in the first quarter of 2008 published.