0 Enterprises for which the enterprise or the enterprise group is a highly important source of information
1 Enterprises for which the suppliers of equipment, materials, components or software are a highly important source of information
2 Enterprises for which the clients or customers are a highly important source of information
3 Enterprises for which the competitors or other enterprises of the same sector are a highly important source of information
4 Enterprises for which the consultants, commercial labs or private R&D institutes are a highly important source of information
5 Enterprises for which the universities or other higher education institutes are a highly important source of information
6 Enterprises for which the Government or public research institutes are a highly important source of information
7 Enterprises for which the conferences, trade fairs, exhibitions are a highly important source of information
8 Enterprises for which scientific journals and trade/technical publications are a highly important source of information
9 Enterprises for which the professional and industry associations are a highly important source of information
Classification of economic activities - NACE Rev.1.1
00 All core NACE activities related to innovation activities (C, D, E, I, J, G51, K72, K74.2, K74.3)
01 Industry (except construction)
02 Mining and quarrying
03 Mining of coal and lignite; extraction of peat
04 Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas; service activities incidental to oil and gas extraction, excluding surveying
05 Mining of uranium and thorium ores
06 Mining of metal ores
07 Other mining and quarrying
08 Manufacturing
09 Manufacture of food products and beverages
0a Manufacture of tobacco products
0b Manufacture of textiles
0c Manufacture of wearing apparel; dressing; dyeing of fur
0d Tanning and dressing of leather; manufacture of luggage, handbags, saddlery, harness and footwear
0e Manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, except furniture; manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials
0f Manufacture of pulp, paper and paper products
0g Publishing, printing and reproduction of recorded media
0h Manufacture of coke, refined petroleum products and nuclear fuel
0i Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products
0j Manufacture of rubber and plastic products
0k Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products
0l Manufacture of basic metals
0m Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment
0n Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
0o Manufacture of office machinery and computers
0p Manufacture of electrical machinery and apparatus n.e.c.
0q Manufacture of radio, television and communication equipment and apparatus
0r Manufacture of medical, precision and optical instruments, watches and clocks
0s Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers
0t Manufacture of other transport equipment
0u Manufacture of furniture; manufacturing n.e.c.
0v Recycling
0w Electricity, gas and water supply
0x Electricity, gas, steam and hot water supply
0y Collection, purification and distribution of water
0z Construction
10 Services (except public administration and community services; activities of households and extra-territorial organizations)
11 Innovation core services activities (G51, I, J, K72, K74.2 and K74.3)
12 Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles and personal and household goods
13 Sale, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles; retail sale of automotive fuel
14 Wholesale trade and commission trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
15 Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles; repair of personal and household goods
16 Hotels and restaurants
17 Transport, storage and communication
18 Land transport; transport via pipelines
19 Water transport
1a Air transport
1b Supporting and auxiliary transport activities; activities of travel agencies
1c Post and telecommunications
1d Financial intermediation
1e Financial intermediation, except insurance and pension funding
1f Insurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security
1g Activities auxiliary to financial intermediation
1h Real estate, renting and business activities
1i Innovation core business activities (K72, K74.2 and K74.3)
1j Real estate activities
1k Renting of machinery and equipment without operator and of personal and household goods
1l Computer and related activities
1m Research and development
1n Other business activities
1o Other innovation core business activities (K74.2 and K74.3)
Size classes in number of employees
0 Total
1 From 10 to 49 employees
2 From 50 to 249 employees
3 250 employees or more
Unit of measure
0 Number
1 Rate
Breakdown by type of innovator
0 Product and/or process innovative enterprises, regardless of organisational or marketing innovation (including enterprises with abandoned/suspended or on-going innovation activities)
Geopolitical entity (reporting)
0 Belgium
1 Bulgaria
2 Czechia
3 Denmark
4 Germany (until 1990 former territory of the FRG)
Highly important source of information for innovation during 2002-2004
methods, notes and classification
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