1. José Simões Manuel Bóia Rodrigo Rodrigues Comments on 2001/03/16 Community Innovation Survey “2 nd Enquiry to Innovation Activities and Results – Portugal” January 2000 Patrícia Ávila, Pedro Conceição

2. Comments on Methodology Comments on Methodology Portugal - 2 nd Enquiry to Innovation Activities and Results  no statistics on the causes of no-answers to permit higher rates of responses in future enquiries;  no questions to allow improvements on future enquiries; e.g., a threshold of internet access would allow the construction of a interactive web portal to introduce data, FAQ’s, interchange of doubts and answers, real-time collection, etc.  rates of response not aggregated by company size or referred to total of class firms, to assess their importance;  lack of a table including the calculations of the sample correction factors for firm size and sector specificity;

3. Comments on Results Presentation Comments on Results Presentation Portugal - 2 nd Enquiry to Innovation Activities and Results  To much text with unrelated numbers (without the corresponding tables or graphics);  If the results for innovation show for both services and industry a sector specificity, for industry a correlation with the firm size, and for service a threshold for firm size, why the different criteria are not presented with this aggregation for Resources Allocated to Innovation, Innovation Objectives, Sources for Information and Cooperation, and Barriers to Innovation?  Lack of clear broader information relation between R&D, Adoption & Diffusion of Technology, and Other Expenditures, also in a per firm class and sector basis, over FTE (“ETI”) employee, to assess their relation to innovation;  to much “global” criteria information without some intermediate steps;

4. A additional measure on Innovation: Added Value A additional measure on Innovation: Added Value Portugal - 2 nd Enquiry to Innovation Activities and Results Company Innovative Products and/or Services Outsourced Components Technology Adoption Market Input Materials Other External Sources Other Collaborations

5. Final Comments Final Comments Portugal - 2 nd Enquiry to Innovation Activities and Results  Need for collection of information to allow future improvements on inquiries;  Need to better assess sector specificity and firm size influence on all innovation criteria, regarding national firm structure;  Need to focus clearer on the “parts of a summation” before assess their global result;  Need to search for additional measurable criteria on Innovation

6. Question Question Portugal - 2 nd Enquiry to Innovation Activities and Results “Knowing that sector specificity and firm size were aggregations of major importance found also by this enquiry as well as others, why didn’t you presented the results for this aggregation, both in services and industry, in all criteria presented?” “Knowing that sector specificity and firm size were aggregations of major importance found also by this enquiry as well as others, why didn’t you presented the results for this aggregation, both in services and industry, in all criteria presented?”