• Data reference period
• Geographic localization (NUTS - 2002)
• Type of expenditure

• ENTERPRISE:  Legal entity (natural or legal person) that is an organisational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations.
• REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
• -:  Transformation of an idea into a saleable product (new or improved), an operational process (in industry or commerce) or a new social service method. It covers all measures of a scientific, technical, commercial, or financial nature necessary to ensure the successful development and commercialisation of new or improved manufactured products, or to enable the commercial use of new or improved processes and materials to introduce a new method of social service. This concept excludes innovation of an aesthetic nature, as well as simple imitation or improvements in detail.

[Expenditure on innovation in enterprises with 10 and more persons employed (NACE Rev. 1.1, C to K) with technological innovation activities/ Expenditure of enterprises with 10 and more persons employed (NACE Rev. 1.1, C to K) with technological innovation activities]*100