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Guide to UNESCO Innovation Statistics
INTRODUCTION
As the statistical branch of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the Institute for Statistics (UIS) produces cross-nationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture and communication for more than 200 countries and territories.
The UIS collects R&D data from more than 200 countries and territories through its biennial research and experimental development survey and partnerships with other statistical organizations, such as Eurostat, Red Iberoamericana de Indicadores de Ciencia y Tecnología (RICYT) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
The UNESCO Innovation Statistics dataset includes over 600 indicators for 70+ countries from 2005 onwards.
Main topics
- Product innovation
- Product-only innovation
- Process innovation
- Process-only innovation
- Product and process innovation
- Innovative firms
- Non-innovative firms
- Innovation-active firms
- Non-innovation firms
- Abandoned or ongoing innovation activities only
- Innovation activities
- Sources of information
- Cooperation
- Hampering factors
- Organisational innovation
- Marketing innovation
Access UNESCO data
Access to the UNESCO Statistics via UKDS.Stat is freely available to all.
Please refer to the UIS Terms and Conditions of Data Use.
User RESOURCES
UNESCO produces the documentation below to accompany the Innovation Statistics dataset:
- UIS Innovation Statistics web pages
- R&D Data Release News June 2016
- Summary Report of the UIS Innovation Data Collection from 2013 and 2015
