Core Indicators

The German Innovation Survey collects a number of indicators on innovation activities of firms on an annual basis ('core indicators'). The core indicators table contains a time series for these indicators, starting in 2006 and broken down by NACE divisions and size classes. The core indicators table will be updated at the beginning of each year.

Note that the indicator values presented in the table are based on national reporting standards for innovation statistics and deviate from the European innovation statistics published by Eurostat since national innovation statistics include firms with 5 to 9 employees and a number of services sectors outside the core services sectors of European innovation statistics.