Patterns in UK Company Innovation Styles: New Evidence from the CBI Innovation Trends Survey

摘要

This paper reports on the results of an analysis at Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC) of the data form the 1996 and 1997 Survey of Innovation Trends conducted by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in conjunction with the NatWest Bank in the UK This is one of the few direct surveys of innovation activity, as opposed to R&D and patenting activity, which is conducted in the UK. It is characterized by the fact that it asks responding firms to report on trends in a wide variety of aspects of their innovative behaviour. The central feature of the analysis in this paper is a factor analysis of the answers to a set of 15 questions on different aspects of innovative behaviour.