The Innovation Survey counts, among other variables, the percentage of innovative companies, as well as the amount of spending on innovative activities and their distribution between the different activities, the public financing of the same and the cooperation for innovative activities.

The Innovation Survey from the year 2018 is conducted with the new version of the Oslo Manual 2018 and this assumes that there is a breakdown of the series due to methodological change. For this reason, the published data for 2018 and on are not comparable to those published in previous years.