ABANDONED INNOVATIVE ACTIVITY

Businesses with abandoned innovative activity, by employment size(a), by type, 2014-15
			0-4 persons	5-19 persons	20-199 persons	200 or more persons	Total
Businesses that abandoned the development or introduction of any new or significantly improved:(b)
	goods or services	%	2.8	3.1	4.7	4.7	3.0
	operational processes	%	1.9	4.0	3.0	6.9	2.7
	organisational/managerial processes	%	1.1	2.9	1.5	2.1	1.7
	marketing methods	%	3.7	4.7	2.0	4.0	3.9
Businesses with any abandoned innovative activity		%	6.9	8.9	8.4	12.2	7.7
(a) Proportions are of all businesses in each output category.
(b) Businesses may be counted in more than one category.

The proportion of businesses that abandoned at least one type of innovative activity during the year ended 30 June 2015 was 8%. Businesses with 0-4 persons employed had the lowest proportion of abandoned innovative activity (7%), while the highest was in businesses with 200 or more persons employed (12%).

Across innovation types, marketing methods were the most common type of innovative activity abandoned (4%).

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