INSTAT carried out the survey on innovation activity in enterprises with 10 or more persons employed for the reference period 2017-2019. Innovative enterprises are defined as enterprises that introduced, in the reference period, a product/process innovation or had innovations that were abandoned or unfinished.
During the period 2017-2019, 38.3 % of enterprises carried out an innovation activity. Innovation activity of the enterprises providing services 42.2 % (sections G, H, J, K, and M of NACE Rev. 2) comparing to enterprises operating in the industrial sector (B, C, D, E of NACE Rev. 2) by 34.0 % (Fig. 1). The largest share of innovation-active enterprises was in the group of large enterprises (with 250 and more persons employed) by 67.9 %