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Business Generation, Enterprise and Innovation

This section looks at businesses in the South West in terms of the generation of new businesses, business survival and expenditure on research and development. It also provides links to further related data, intelligence and resources.

Business Generation and Start-Ups

This section looks at the indicators related to the generation and start-up of new businesses in the region.

Indicators	Downloads
Business start-ups	Latest & historical data (Excel, 76KB)

Business Survival

This section looks at indicators related to the survival of businesses. A healthy labour market is one that is able to support and sustain newly-generated businesses over a period of time.

Indicators	Downloads
Business survival	Latest & historical data (Excel, 27KB)

Research and Development (R&D) Expenditure

These indicators relate to research and development activities undertaken by businesses, government and Higher Education Institutions in the region. Innovation and technical progress and important factor in economic growth. A healthy labour market is one which is sustained by high levels of research and development activity in different sectors of the economy. However, available data cannot say anything about the effectiveness of innovation spending.