An innovation-active firm is one that has had innovation activities during the period under review, including those with ongoing and abandoned activities.
In other words, firms that have had innovation activities during the period under review, regardless of whether the activity resulted in the implementation of an innovation, are innovation-active.
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Source
- OECD/Eurostat, "The measurement of scientific and technological activities: guidelines for collecting and interpreting innovation data: Oslo manual)", Third Edition, Paris, 2005 - pdf