Definiton: "further index number"

Enterprises with innovation activities

Source: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, 6. Community Innovation Survey (CIS 2008). Compiled on 06 July 2010.
innovation activities =  Enterprises with product, process, organisational, marketing innovations and/or ongoing or abandoned innovation activities.

Patent applications to the European Patent Office (EPO)

Source: EUROSTAT, Data refer to applications filed directly under the European Patent Convention or to applications filed under the Patent Co-operation Treaty and designated to the EPO (Euro-PCT). Patent applications are counted according to the year in which they were filed at the EPO and are broken down according to the International Patent Classification (IPC). They are also broken down according to the inventor's place of residence, using fractional counting if multiple inventors or IPC classes are provided to avoid double counting.

Academic alumnus in science and technology per 1000  of the population; from 20-29 years

Exports of high technology products as a share of total exports

This indicator is calculated as share of exports of all high technology products of total exports. High Technology products are defined as the sum of the following products: Aerospace, Computers-office machines, Electronics-telecommunications, Pharmacy, Scientific instruments, Electrical machinery, Chemistry, Non-electrical machinery, Armament. The total exports for the EU do not include the intra-EU trade.