• 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).
• INNOVATION ACTIVITIES:  Acquisition of machinery, equipment, software and licences; engineering and development activities, training, marketing and R&D whenever they are undertaken specifically to implement a product or process innovation.
• INOVATION:  Introduction of a new or significantly improved product (good or service) or process, a new marketing method or a new organizational method in business practice, work organization, or the enterprise¿s external relations.

[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