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Innovation in business enterprises: down 2.6pct in 2014-2016; public funding up by 17.6pct
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The weight of innovative enterprises down 2.6 pp;
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Less innovation both in the industrial sector and in the services sector;
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Large enterprises more innovative than small and medium enterprises;
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The most innovative economic activities were: computer programming, consultancy and related activities (25.1%) and the manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations (24.2%);
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More than half of the product (good) and process innovative enterprises developed innovations in their own enterprise;
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The public financing of enterprises in the period 2014-2016 increased by 17.6 pp compared to the period 2012-2014;
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The weight of the enterprises with co-operation agreements for innovative activities was up 2.5 pp in the period 2014-2016 from the period 2012-2014;
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The weight of employees in innovative enterprises decreased by 7.2 pp;
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The most innovative SMEs were recorded in the South-East Region (16.3%) and the least innovative in the South-West Oltenia Region (3.2%)
The share of innovative enterprises in Romania was 10.2 percent in 2014-2016, down 2.6 percentage points from 2012-2014, according to the findings of surveys of innovation in the business environment, but public funding increased by 17.6 percent, the National Institute of Statistics (NIS) reported on Friday.
According to statistics, the most innovative economic activities were services in information technology (25.1 percent) and manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations (24.2 percent).
Product or process innovative enterprises had a share of 5.4 percent in total enterprises, down 1.1 percentage points from 6.5 percent in 2012-2014.
Industrial innovative enterprises had a share of 10.3 percent, down 2.3 percentage points from 2012-2014, while innovative enterprises in the service industry recorded a 10 percent share, down 3.1 percentage points from 2012-2014.
Large enterprises are more innovative (17.9 percent), than medium-sized enterprises (11.9 percent) and small enterprises (9.3 percent). This trend was noticeable in the two sectors of activity: industry and services.
The most innovative economic activity in the service industry was services in information technology (25.1 percent); it is followed by research and development (20.4 percent). In industry, the most innovative economic activities were manufacture of basic pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical preparations (24.2 percent), followed by manufacture of chemical substances and products (19.7 percent).
By type of innovation implemented in 2014-2016, most innovative businesses implemented organisational methods (5.8 percent) and marketing methods (5.1 percent). The share of product innovative enterprises was 3.3 percent and that of process innovative ones was 3.5 percent.
In 2014-2016, the share of enterprises that introduced new products to the market increased by 0.1 percentage points (1.4 percent versus 1.3 percent), while the share of enterprises that introduced new products for enterprises fell by 0.3 percentage points (2.6 percent versus 2.9 percent in 2012-2014).
In 2014-2016, 52.2 percent of product innovative enterprises developed innovations in their own enterprise, 25.2 percent of enterprises introduced goods together with other enterprises, 6.0 percent achieved innovation through adaptation or modification of goods and 2.2 percent were achieved in other enterprises.
The most important product market remains the local or regional market, as mentioned by 90.5 percent of the total innovative enterprises, followed by the national market by 74.3 percent and the European Union market by 58.8 percent. Of the total of innovative enterprises, only 31.2 percent indicated they sold their products to other countries.
In 2016, the total cost of product or process innovation was 1,814.2 million lei.
Public enterprise funding increased by 17.6 percentage points, from 20.8 percent in 2012-2014 to 38.4 percent in 2014-2016.
In 2014-2016, the number of innovative enterprises with co-operation agreements to carry out innovative activities increased by 2.5 percentage points to 17.9 percent, from 15.4 percent in 2012-2014.
The main co-operation partners of innovative enterprises were suppliers of equipment, materials, components and software (9.3 percent), as well as universities or other higher education institutions (9.1 percent). By economic sectors, industry is more co-operative than in the services industry.
The Nord-Est (North-East) region reported the highest number of innovative SMEs running on public funding (3.4 percent), while most of the SMEs having co-operated for innovative activities with other enterprises or institutions were recorded in the Nord-Vest region (2.6 percent).
In the Sud-Est (South-East) region most of the innovative SMEs were products innovative (2.0 percent), and in the Bucharest-Ilfov region most innovative enterprises were product innovative (0.6 percent).