Telecommunications: innovation expenditure in Germany 2008-2017

This statistic shows data on the innovation expenditure of the telecommunications industry in Germany from 2008 to 2017*. The term innovation expenditure refers to the expenditure on research and development as well as innovation-relevant spendings on fixed immaterial assets, education, marketing, conception, construction, design and production and distribution preparation. In 2015, the innovation expenditure of the telecommunications sector amounted to roughly 4.2 billion euros.

Innovation expenditure of the telecommunications industry in Germany from 2008 to 2017* (in billion euros)

Characteristic	Innovation expenditure in billion euros
2017*	4.7
2016*	4.45
2015	4.2
2014	3.7
2013	3.8
2012	3.7
2011	3.3
2010	3.7
2009	3.1
2008	3.8

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Release date

January 2017

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Region

Germany

Survey time period

2008 to 2015

Special properties

companies with 5 employees and more

Supplementary notes

According to the source, the German innovation survey is carried out on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Reasearch (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung). It is conducted by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW, Mannheim), which has cooperated with infas (Institute for Applied Social Sciences) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) since 1993. The survey takes into account all companies in Germany with a minimum of at least five employees whose economic focus lies in the relevant sector. Definitions and survey methods correspond with the international standards of OECD and Eurostat. Every other year, the innovation survey is part of the European Community Innovation Survey (CIS) coordinated by Eurostat. All figures were projected to the population of companies with a minimum of five employees in Germany. More than 15,400 companies took part in the 2016 innovation survey (= 58 percent of random sample), 843 of which belonged to the telecommunications sector.

* Target figures of spring/summer 2016. Figures for 2015 are preliminary.

Telecommunications (WZ08 61): landline and mobile telephony, satellite telecommunications, internet service providers and providers of telephone and internet services (incl. internet cafés and call shops).

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