Community Innovation Survey 4

Abstract

The Community Innovation Survey (CIS) is a survey of innovation activity in enterprises covering EU Member States, candidate countries, Iceland and Norway.In order to ensure comparability across countries, Eurostat, in close cooperation with the EU Member States and other countries, developed standard core questionnaires for CIS 4, with an accompanying set of definitions and methodological recommendations.CIS 4 is based on the Oslo Manual (2nd edition, 1997), which gives methodological guidelines and defines the concept of innovation, and on Commission Regulation No 1450/2004.