Innovation
» Innovation, Volume 5, Issue 6, 2005
If respondent purposefully innovates or invents with the intention of selling or licensing those innovations or inventions.
2a. Approximately, what percent of your sales come from your innovations or inventions?
| Response | Small employers with sales from their innovations, etc. | All small, employing businesses/Small employers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | < 10 percent | 15 | 2 | |
| 2 | 10 - 49 percent | 37 | 4 | |
| 3 | 50 - 99 percent | 25 | 3 | |
| 4 | All | 21 | 2 | |
| 5 | No innovations | 89 | ||
| 6 | DK/Refuse | 3 | 0 | |
| Total (%) | 101 | 100 | ||
| N | 82 | 753 | ||
Notes: Forty-six (46) percent of small employers who purposefully innovate or invent things with the intention of selling or licensing those innovations or inventions report that half or more of their sales are generated from these newly introduced products, services, designs, or processes (Q#2a). Five percent of small employers generate half or more of their sales from newly introduced products, services, designs, or processes (Q#2a).
