The main topics covered in the 2022 CIS survey are as follows:

• presence of innovations by type of innovation (products, processes);

• turnover share from product or service innovations introduced between 2022 and 2024;

• expenditure associated with product and process innovation activities;

• factors explaining the lack of innovation over the 2022-2024 period;

• forms of cooperation for the development of innovations

• financing available to the enterprise, particularly for innovation;

• relations with users for product innovation;

• innovations with environmental benefits.

• market strategies of the enterprise

• intellectual property rights

• impact of artificial intelligence on innovation activities.

The main areas of dissemination are the activity sector of the company described according to the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE Rev. 2), the size of the enterprise (workforce) and type of innovation.

In addition, the innovation classification distinguishes between innovative enterprises (product or process innovation, innovation in progress or discontinued, R&D activity) and non-innovative enterprises during the reference period.

The main sectors covered by the survey are:

• Section B << Mining and quarrying >>

• Section C << Manufacturing >>

• Sections D et E << Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply ; Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities >>

• Section F << Construction >>

• Section G << Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles >>

• Section H << Transportation and storage >>

• Section I << Accomodation and food service activities >>

• Section J << Information and communication >>

• Section K << Financial and insurance activities >> (excluding legal categories 5195 and 6595)

• Section L << Real estate activities >>

• Section M << Professional, scientific and technical activities >> (excluding division 75)

• Section N << Administrative and support service activities >> (excluding division 82)

Legal category 7353 (Syndicat intercommunal à vocation unique (SIVU)) is excluded.

Enterprises with 10 or more employees are covered by the survey. They are classified into 3 categories:

• 10-49 persons employed

• 50-249 persons employed

• 250 or more persons employed

The boundary between technological and non-technological innovations is increasingly being held. As a result, the 4th edition of the Oslo Manual (October 2018) now includes only the following two types of innovation:

• product innovation: the introduction on the market of a new or significantly improved good or service compared to the products previously developed by the company. It includes significant design changes and digital goods or services, and excludes the resale in the same condition as new goods or services and changes of an aesthetic nature;

• process innovation: the implementation in the company of a new or significantly improved process compared to the processes previously used by the company. It concerns production and development methods, logistics and distribution, information and communication system, administrative tasks and accounting, organisation of procedures, management of relations with suppliers, work organisation, decision-making processes, human resources, marketing, packaging, pricing and after-sales service.

As with CIS 2020 and CIS 2022, the interrogation unit is the enterprise as defined by the 2008 French law on the modernization of the economy (LME 2008). The enterprise is defined as the smallest combination of legal units that constitutes an organizational unit for the production of goods and services, with a certain degree of decision-making autonomy, notably for the allocation of its current resources.

The enterprises surveyed are enterprises established in France (France and overseas departments), active on 31/12/2024 and having had at least 6 months of activity, merchants, operators with 10 or more persons employed.

The enterprises belong to divisions 05 to 81 of the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE rev.2, excluding divisions 75: Veterinary activities and 82: Office administrative, office support and other business support activities).

2022 to 2024 depending on questions