Study title

Technical development in Dutch industrial firms and firms in the service sector. General information: whether the firm is independent or part of a concern with a head office in the Netherlands or abroad / influence of head office on decision processes / nr. of employees / percentage of export in turnover / / development of turnover. Research and Development: having a Research and Development (R&D) Department / nr. of men years spent in R&D activities in 1988, at the R&D department as well as at other departments / working together with other R&D departments from other companies, in the Netherlands and-or abroad and its volume in men years / expectations concerning R&D activities in 1989 and 1990 / other innovative activities: patent applications in Europe and the USA / completion of other innovative activities / amount of money spent on new software and writing-rewriting of software / on which kind of technologies or implementation of technologies the R&D department is oriented, now and during the coming five years / most important bottle neck concerning innovative activities / percentage of staff members taking part in courses payed by the company / use of stimulation programs of the government / having one or more offices abroad / giving licences to companies abroad (mother-daughter-sister companies excluded) / for the purpose of this survey: companies are divided into SBI-codes.