Wholesale: innovation spending in Germany 2024

This statistic shows the innovation intensity of the wholesale trade sector in Germany from 2008 to 2024. 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 2024, German wholesalers planned to spend roughly 3.47 billion euros on innovation.

Innovation expenditure in the wholesale trade sector in Germany from 2008 to 2024 (in billion euros)

Characteristic	Innovation expenditure in billion euros
2024*	3.47
2023*	4.45
2022	5.01
2021	3.81
2020	3.12
2019	3.11
2018	2.79
2017	2.1
2016	2.65
2015	2.07
2014	1.91
2013	2.17
2012	1.98
2011	1.78
2010	2.15
2009	2.71
2008	2.28

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Release date

January 2024

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Region

Germany

Survey time period

2008 to 2024

Special properties

Companies with at least 5 employees

Supplementary notes

* Target figures.

Wholesale excluding trade with motor vehicles.
According to the source, the German Innovation Survey has been conducted on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) by the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW, Mannheim, Germany) since 1993 in cooperation with the Institute for Applied Social Science (Infas) and the Fraunhofer-Institute for System and Innovation Research (ISI). The survey covers German companies with at least five employees and an economic focus on one of the relevant segment groups. Definitions and evaluation methods correspond to OECD standards and Eurostat. Every two years, the innovation survey is part of the Europe-wide innovation evaluation Community Innovation Survey (CIS) of Eurostat. Figures depict projected base of companies with at least five employees. In 2022, over 16,400 enterprises participated in the survey (= 54% of sample size), of which 725 were wholesalers.

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