Innovation and business performance - a provisional multi-regional analysis



Table 3: Key Innovation and Business Performance Indicators: By Region

Number of observations

Northern

Ireland

336

Republic
of
Ireland
552

Scotland

333

South

East
England
169

Baden-

Wurttem
berg
271

Bavaria

336

A. Knowledge Sourcing

R&D Percentage of Workforce (%,mean)

1.9

2.1

3.8

3.6

2.5

2.6

Non supply-chain Innovation Collaboration (%, mean)

12.218

15.970

9.545

9.305

8.569

8.650

Supply chain Innovation Collaboration (%, mean)

20.5

24.1

17.3

21.4

12.2

14.9

B. Innovation Indicators

Plants introducing new products (%)

62.8

67.3

64.4

78.0

62.0

72.0

Innovation Products as % of sales (mean)

29.9

28.7

31.0

34.9

37.5

40.5

C. Indicators of Business Performance

Value added per employee (£000, mean)

28.27

45. 99

39.83

44.15

57.76

82.07

Gross profit margin (%, median)

16.5

21.2

21.7

25.2

23.7

19.4

Source: Multi-regional Database

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