The aim of this research is to collect data on innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the State of Brandenburg in the years 2020 to 2022 as well as the planned innovation activities in 2023 and 2024. For this purpose, the German Innovation Survey 2023 is complemented by a special sample of firms from Brandenburg. This additional innovation survey for Brandenburg fully shares all methodical elements of the German Innovation Survey in terms of sampling, questionnaire, survey methodology, data processing and data analysis). The 2023 survey is the second year of surveying innovation activities for the State of Brandenburg, continuing a first project conducted in 2019. Weighted results are reported for the population of enterprises in Brandenburg with 5 or more employees in manufacturing and business-oriented service sectors and compared to the results for enterprises in Germany and the other East German States.