The harmonized surveys are designed to give information on the innovativeness of different sectors and regions.
[2] Thereupon, the member states of the European Union decided to coordinate their efforts, and they laid down a common methodological approach to innovation research in the Oslo Manual.
In that sense it was an important step towards CIS2, even though both surveys turned out to mark a rather large number of firms as 'innovative' due to their generous definitions.
[6] National statistical offices carry out the survey according to the EU-wide definitions of the Oslo Manual.
Firms that organise their business activities into separate legally defined units can therefore be sampled several times.