South African Business Innovation Survey (INNOV) 2014-2016 Aggregated: All provinces

Description:
This aggregated data set contains the responses of South African business enterprises on their innovation activities carried out between 2014 and 2016. In completing the questionnaire, enterprises followed a skip pattern, e.g., depending on whether or not they had carried out product or process innovation during the period covered by the survey.
Abstract:
The South African Business Innovation Survey 2014-16 was designed based on the guidelines of the Oslo Manual. The survey was directly comparable with the core questionnaire for round 4 of the OECD Community Innovation Survey (CIS 4). Following international methodology allows the results of the South African Business Innovation Survey to be usefully compared with the results from other countries.

The South African Business Innovation Survey 2014-16 was based on a random stratified sample of business enterprises from the national business register (or equivalent) and results are extrapolated to the original population. A random stratified sample of 4 950 enterprises was obtained from the Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) business register. A process of sample cleaning identified 759 businesses as invalid because they were either not identifiable or traceable through several methods, duplicates, or inactive businesses. Invalid businesses were excluded and the remaining entries in the database totaled 4191 valid enterprises.

The South African Business Innovation Survey 2014-16 collected primary data and despite implementing an extensive advocacy strategy prior to and as part of the fieldwork, 642 businesses responded to the survey. Although some general organisational information was collected, the survey focused on product and process innovation.

Some of the indicators collected included the following:

Share of firms that introduced a product innovation

Share of firms that introduced a process innovation

Share of firms that introduced a new-to-market product innovation

Sources of information for innovation

Expenditures on innovation [by innovation activity]

Factors hampering innovation in firms

Share of (innovation active) firms that co-operated with foreign partners on innovation

Share of (innovation active) firms that received public financial support for innovation

The key users of the data and findings include government departments, especially the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Ad hoc requests for data are also accommodated and inform academic papers, reports and outputs.

### 数据集说明
本聚合数据集收录了南非工商企业在2014至2016年间开展创新活动的相关反馈。企业在填写问卷时需遵循跳答逻辑：例如，需根据其在调研覆盖时段内是否开展过产品或工艺创新，决定后续的作答路径。

### 摘要
2014-2016年南非企业创新调研（South African Business Innovation Survey 2014-16）依据《奥斯陆手册》（Oslo Manual）的指南设计，其核心问卷与经济合作与发展组织（Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD）第四轮社区创新调查（Community Innovation Survey 4, CIS 4）的核心问卷具有直接可比性。采用国际通用调研方法，使得本调研结果可与其他国家的同类调研结果进行有效比对。

本次调研的样本源自全国工商登记系统（或等效系统）的分层随机抽样样本，调研结果可外推至目标总体。研究团队从南非统计局（Statistics South Africa, Stats SA）的工商登记系统中抽取了4950家企业作为分层随机抽样样本。经过样本清洗流程，共筛选出759家无效企业：这些企业无法通过多种方式识别或追溯、存在重复登记，或已处于停业状态。剔除无效企业后，数据库中剩余有效企业共计4191家。

本次调研采集一手调研数据，尽管在实地调研前后均实施了广泛的宣传动员策略，最终仍仅有642家企业完成了问卷反馈。尽管调研收集了部分基础组织信息，但其核心聚焦于产品创新与工艺创新两大方向。

本次调研采集的部分指标如下：
- 开展产品创新的企业占比
- 开展工艺创新的企业占比
- 推出市场全新产品的企业占比
- 创新信息来源渠道
- 按创新活动类型划分的创新支出
- 制约企业创新的阻碍因素
- 开展创新活动的企业中与境外合作伙伴开展创新合作的占比
- 开展创新活动的企业中获得公共财政创新资助的占比

本数据及调研结果的核心使用者包括政府部门，尤其是南非科学和创新部（Department of Science and Innovation, DSI）以及经济合作与发展组织（OECD）。本数据集也可响应临时数据调取请求，相关成果可用于学术论文、研究报告及各类产出的撰写。