Community Innovation Survey 3

Abstract

The focus of the Community Innovation Survey 3 (CIS 3) is the enterprise, conceptually referred to as the 'innovation dynamo' in the Oslo manual for innovation statistics. The CIS was designed to overcome seeing innovation as a linear model, whereby innovation follows on from the creative activity of invention. Instead, the data collected from this survey covers and embodies the diffusion of knowledge. Innovation is a complex process with many interacting components. The CIS3 questionnaire is broken down into 12 different sections:1. Product innovation;2. Process innovation;3. Not yet completed or abandoned innovation activities;4. Innovation activity and expenditure;5. Intramural research and experimental development (R&D);6. Effects of innovation;7. Public funding of innovation;8. Innovation co-operation;9. Sources of information for innovation;10. Hampered innovation activity;11. Patents and other protection methods;12. Other important strategical and organizational changes in the enterprise.In order to ensure comparability across countries, Eurostat, in close cooperation with the EU Member States, developed a standard core questionnaire, with an accompanying set of definitions and methodological recommendations. Countries participated on the basis of gentleman's agreements and usually applied the harmonized concepts, definitions and methodological recommendations