The aim of this research is to collect data on innovation activities of the business enterprise sector in the State of Berlin in the years 2019 to 2021 as well as the planned innovation activities in 2022 and 2023. For this purpose, the German Innovation Survey 2022 is complemented by a special sample of firms from Berlin. This additional innovation survey for Berlin fully shares all methodical elements of the German Innovation Survey in terms of sampling, questionnaire, survey methodology, data processing and data analysis). Weighted results are reported for the population of enterprises in Berlin with 5 or more employees in manufacturing and business-oriented service sectors and compared to the results for enterprises in other metropolitan regions of Germany.

Based on the project results, Technologiestiftung Berlin produced an analytical report (only German available) on the innovation activities of firms in Berlin, which can be accessed here.