Impacts captures the effects of enterprises’ innovation activities and differentiates between three innovation dimensions:
4.1 Sales and employment impacts
This dimension captures the economic success of innovation in sales and employment. It includes two indicators:

• 4.1.1 Sales of new-to-market and new-to-enterprise innovations as % of turnover
• 4.1.2 Employment in innovative enterprises

4.2 Trade impacts
This dimension captures the economic success of trade due to innovation activities. It includes three indicators:

• 4.2.1 Exports of medium and high technology products
• 4.2.2 Knowledge-intensive services exports as % of services exports
• 4.2.3 High tech imports from partners outside of the EU

4.3 Resources and labour productivity
This dimension captures improvements due to resources and labour productivity including three indicators:

• 4.3.1 Resource productivity
• 4.3.2 Production-based CO2 productivity
• 4.3.3 Labour productivity