• Data reference period
• Geographic localization (Portugal)
• Economic activity (CAE Rev. 2.1)

• -:  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.
• 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).
• TECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCT INNOVATION:  The term "product" is used to refer to goods and services. Technological product innovation can be of two types: technologically new products and technologically improved products: a) A technologically new product is a product whose technological characteristics or intended use differ significantly from those of previously produced products. These innovations may involve radically new technologies, be based on new combinations of existing technologies, or result from the application of new knowledge; b) A technologically improved product is an existing product whose performance has been significantly extended or developed. A simple product can be improved (in terms of better performance or lower cost) by using components or materials with more advanced technical characteristics. A complex product, made up of an integrated set of technical sub-systems, can be improved through partial changes to one of the sub-systems.
• 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.
• ECONOMIC ACTIVITY:  Combination of resources such as labour, raw materials, equipment, etc., are joined, leading to the creation of specific goods or services. Regardless of the factors of production integrating the good or service produced, all activities generically imply an input of products (goods or services), a production process and an output of products (goods or services).

(Total expenditure in innovation/ Turnover of enterprises with 10 and more persons employed (NACE Rev. 1.1, C to K) with innovation)*100