A total of €156.8 million is estimated to have been spent in technological innovation in 2012.

The NSO said that during this period, 702 enterprises employing at least 10 persons, or 47.8 per cent of the total, undertook innovation activity.

A total 88 enterprises were engaged solely in technological innovation, 239 in non-technological innovation and 375 in both.

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