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UK Innovation Survey

This collection brings together all documents relating to the UK Innovation Survey (UKIS).

From:
Department for Business and Trade and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Published
6 December 2012
Last updated
22 May 2025 — See all updates

The UK Innovation Survey (UKIS) is the main data source for business innovation in the UK. The survey is conducted every 2 years and is used widely across government to help improve policy. It is also used by the research community for understanding the innovation landscape.

The survey focuses on business adoption of innovation through new and improved products and services, investments in different types of innovation, and changes in business structures, management, design and marketing innovations. It also asks businesses about the drivers which motivate and barriers to innovation.

UKIS 2025 is the UK’s 14th survey of this type. The survey was funded and developed by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and administered by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on behalf of DBT. It’s planned that the UKIS 2025 results will be released in Spring 2026 but the exact date will be confirmed on the Research and Statistics calendar well in advance.

The statistical annexes for 2023, 2021, 2019 and 2017 are available in the main reports; these were published as separate documents in 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015.

More historic information prior to 2009 is available from the National Archives website.

UKIS 2025 went into field in mid-May 2025. The UK Innovation Survey (UKIS): privacy notice sets out how we process and use business data from UKIS 2023 and future iterations of the survey. It sets out how data are processed, kept securely and confidentially and, where necessary, shared with other government departments/Devolved Administrations, approved contractors and accredited researchers for statistical purposes only.

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Updates to this page

Published 6 December 2012
Last updated 22 May 2025 show all updates

  1. UK Innovation Survey 2025, covering the period from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2024, has gone out to businesses to complete.

  2. 'UK innovation survey: 2023' report added to collection

  3. Link added to a previously published statistic 'Innovation activities by UK businesses in 2012-2014, 2014-2016 and 2016-2018, by NUTS2 geographic boundaries and Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) area'.

  4. Linking to UK innovation survey privacy notice, for release on date at which UK Innovation Survey 2023 goes live

  5. UK innovation survey 2021 added.

  6. First published.

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