Variables included in the ESEE and used in the creation of the MQI
| Leadership | Technological guidance or committee |
| Variables linked to leadership and management abilities | Innovation activity plan |
| Owners and family support in leadership and management | |
| Use of consultants for technology | |
| Information expenditure on environmental | |
| Protection investment on environmental | |
| Protection degree of diversification | |
| Innovation | |
| Variables linked to the operations management (processes, products and services) | Product standardization |
| Normalization and quality control | |
| Scientific and technique information systems | |
| Product innovations | |
| Equipment goods acquisition for product | |
| Improvement innovations in external relations | |
| Management merchandising innovations | |
| Process innovations of new | |
| Equipment process innovations of | |
| Software process innovations of new techniques | |
| Collaboration | |
| Variables linked to the management of partnerships and resources | Technological collaboration with customers |
| Technological collaboration with competitors | |
| Technological collaboration with suppliers | |
| Collaboration with universities or technological | |
| Centres EU research programme | |
| Training | |
| Variables linked to the management of the staff | External expenditure on language training |
| External expenditure on engineering and technical training | |
| External expenditure on sales and marketing training | |
| External expenditure on computer and technologies | |
| Training external formation on training in other themes | |
| Hiring employees with experience in R&D | |
| Digitization | |
| Variables linked to the digital and technological policy and strategy | Own internet domain |
| Web page on the firm server | |
| Online purchases from | |
| Supplier online sales to final | |
| Customers online sales to firms | |
| Evaluation of alternative technologies | |
| Evaluation of technological change prospects | |
| Results | |
| Variables linked to the measurement of results | Market surveys |
| Innovation performance indicators | |
| Online sales impact indicator | |
| Identification of the competitive position in the main market | |
| Positive evolution of the market share | |
| Variables linked to leadership and management abilities | Innovation activity plan |
| Owners and family support in leadership and management | |
| Use of consultants for technology | |
| Information expenditure on environmental | |
| Protection investment on environmental | |
| Protection degree of diversification | |
| Variables linked to the operations management (processes, products and services) | Product standardization |
| Normalization and quality control | |
| Scientific and technique information systems | |
| Product innovations | |
| Equipment goods acquisition for product | |
| Improvement innovations in external relations | |
| Management merchandising innovations | |
| Process innovations of new | |
| Equipment process innovations of | |
| Software process innovations of new techniques | |
| Variables linked to the management of partnerships and resources | Technological collaboration with customers |
| Technological collaboration with competitors | |
| Technological collaboration with suppliers | |
| Collaboration with universities or technological | |
| Centres EU research programme | |
| Variables linked to the management of the staff | External expenditure on language training |
| External expenditure on engineering and technical training | |
| External expenditure on sales and marketing training | |
| External expenditure on computer and technologies | |
| Training external formation on training in other themes | |
| Hiring employees with experience in R&D | |
| Variables linked to the digital and technological policy and strategy | Own internet domain |
| Web page on the firm server | |
| Online purchases from | |
| Supplier online sales to final | |
| Customers online sales to firms | |
| Evaluation of alternative technologies | |
| Evaluation of technological change prospects | |
| Variables linked to the measurement of results | Market surveys |
| Innovation performance indicators | |
| Online sales impact indicator | |
| Identification of the competitive position in the main market | |
| Positive evolution of the market share | |
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