Business Generation, Enterprise and Innovation

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

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.

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.

Business generation & start-ups

Business survival

R & D Expenditure

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