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UK Innovation Survey

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Summary

The UK Innovation survey provides information on business innovation and the factors which drive or restrict it.

Description

The UK Innovation Survey (UKIS) is undertaken as a cross-sectional study covering a three year period each time (eg 2018 to 2020 for the latest UKIS 2021). Similar datasets are available going all the way back to 1997. For each round, analyses can be undertaken on the microdataset which has results based on the core questionnaire which focusses on business adoption of innovation through new and improved products and services, investments in different types of innovation, and changes in business structures, management, design, and marketing innovations. The survey also asks businesses about the drivers which motivate and barriers to innovation. Assessment of changes in innovation behaviour by businesses over time can be undertaken by constructing a longitudinal panel dataset covering for example the last three UKIS surveys (2017, 2019 and 2021 say) this is based on a sub-sample of businesses that responded to the questionnaire in each of these surveys. The latest dataset relating to UKIS 2021 covers the survey period 2018 to 2020 and has 13,598 records with over 180 variables. The bulk of the variables are as set out in a questionnaire developed originally by Eurostat/ OECD.

About this data

Data creator
Department for Business and Trade
Temporal coverage
01 January 1997 to 31 December 2019
Frequency
Biennial
Dataset theme
Business and economy
Restrictions for access
Access for all accredited researchers
Project approval
Projects must be accredited
Search keywords
Business Innovation Research and development

Metadata

Metadata

Dataset themeMain category for the topic of the resource
Business and economy
Dataset resource typeThe type of the dataset resource
Survey
Geographic coverageThe geographic area covered by the dataset
UK
Temporal coverageThe timeframes covered by these data
01 January 1997 to 31 December 2019
FrequencyThe frequency at which the dataset resource is published or updated
Biennial
Geographic levelThe lowest level of geography covered by the dataset
Postcode
Data creatorThe name of the organisation that produced or published this resource
Department for Business and Trade
Data contributorsThe name(s) of any organisation(s), other than the data supplier or provider, that have data which are included in this dataset resource
Licensing statusThe license used for making this resource available and defining how it can be used
Restricted
Disclosure controlThe standard or bespoke disclosure control rules that apply to this dataset
Standard disclosure rules apply
Restrictions for accessRestrictions for users and researchers accessing data in Google Cloud Platform
Access for all accredited researchers
Research outputsThe approval route researchers must take for their outputs to be published
Research outputs must be sent to the data owner
Project approvalThe project approvals needed for this resource
Projects must be accredited
Research disclaimerThe disclaimer required to be published with the outputs for this dataset
No requirements
AcronymAny other names or acronyms used to refer to the data
UKIS
ProvenanceDetails of how this dataset resource came to be generated
UK Innovation Survey