Innovation in Canadian businesses, 2020 to 2022

Release date: March 12, 2024
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Description: Innovation in Canadian businesses, 2020 to 2022

About 7 in 10 Canadian businesses (71.9%) introduced innovations during the 2020–2022 period, down from 8 in 10 businesses (79.8%) during the 2017–2019 period.

Product innovation and business process innovation decreased in the 2020-2022 period, compared with the 2017-2019 period.


Table 1
Table summary
This table displays the results of Table 1 2017–2019 and 2020–2022, calculated using Percentage of innovative businesses units of measure (appearing as column headers).
2017–2019 2020–2022
Percentage of innovative businesses
Product innovationTable 1 Note 1 52.7% 46.6%
Business process innovationTable 1 Note 2 72.7% 63.0%
Any type of innovation 79.8% 71.9%

Top 3 obstacles to innovation reported by businesses


Table 2
Table summary
This table displays the results of Table 2 Percentage of businesses (appearing as column headers).
Percentage of businesses
Impacts caused by COVID-19 29.4%
Lack of skills 28.5%
Uncertainty and risk 28.1%

Most common types of intellectual property (IP) protection filed by innovative businesses that developed new products


Table 3
Table summary
This table displays the results of Table 3 Percentage of businesses (appearing as column headers).
Percentage of businesses
Non-disclosure agreements 45.0%
Trademarks 43.7%
Patents 33.0%
Note: The percentages represent the proportion of businesses that developed new products and filed for their protection through these different types of IP.

Among all businesses, recipients of government support for their innovation-related activities were more innovative


Table 4
Table summary
This table displays the results of Table 4 All types of businesses and Proportion of innovative businesses (appearing as column headers).
All types of businesses Proportion of innovative businesses
Recipients of government support for innovation 34.1% 83.3%Table 4 Note 3
Non-recipients of government support for innovation 65.9% 66.0%

Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy, 2022.

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