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EIMS Studies
Innovative Structures and Performance in Nordic Manufacturing Industry

Abstract

This report summarises the results of the Nordic Innovation Survey. This survey was performed in 1989 and was built on the experience from surveys previously carried out in Italy and Germany. The results are based on 650 questionnaires from Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

Main Findings:

There is a clear tendancy that small and to a lesser degree, medium sized firms have achieved the best innovative results; correspondingly, it is apparently small enterprises which have made the , relatively, biggest innovative efforts.

The most research intensive sectors have achieved the best results and that science based firms carry out an above - average number of innovative projects.

No obvious trends can explain the differences between the individual Nordic countries, e.g.

Innovative output seems to be higher in Denmark than in Finland and Norway.

Norwegian firms seem to spend a large share of their innovation budget on R&D while Finnish firms seem to spend more on acquisition of capital equipment

Empirical studies and the Community Innovation Survey (CIS)