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"In the period 2014-2016, the number of companies implementing technological innovations rose to nearly 20 thousand, up by nearly one thousand relative to the period 2012-2014. This involves new or substantially improved products or production processes. In 2017, Dutch enterprises, institutions and the higher education sector spent 14.7 billion euros on Research &amp;amp; Development (R&amp;amp;D). This is reported by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) on the basis of the biennial Community Innovation Survey conducted among companies with 10 employees or more and on the basis of the annual R&amp;amp;D survey."
<https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2018/51/rising-number-of-innovating-businesses>