Innovation spending in the German car industry

This statistic shows the expenditure on innovation in the car industry in Germany from 2011 to 2024. In 2024, the German car industry planned to spend around 53.2 billion euros on innovation activities.

Expenditure on innovation in the car industry in Germany from 2011 to 2024 (in billion euros)

Characteristic	Expenditure on innovation in billion euros
2024¹	53.2
2023¹	51.68
2022	52.66
2021	48.57
2020	46.06
2019	49.85
2018	49.89
2017	47.4
2016	47.1
2015	46
2014	41.6
2013	41.9
2012	39.3
2011	34.8

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Release date

January 2024

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Region

Germany

Survey time period

2011 to 2024

Special properties

Companies with five or more employees

Supplementary notes

¹ Planned figure.
The German Innovation Survey is conducted on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany (BMBF) by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim in cooperation with with the infas (Institute for Applied Social Science) and the Frauenhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI). The first survey was undertaken in 1993. The survey is aimed at all companies in Germany with at least 5 employees and an economic focus from one of the industry groups listed on page 1. Definition and measurement concepts are derived from the international standards of OECD and Eurostat. The Innovation Survey is part of the biannual European Community Innovation Survey which is coordinated by Eurostat. All figures are extrapolated to the total number of companies with at least 5 employees in Germany. In 2021, around 18,600 companies took part in the innovation survey, among them 317 from vehicle manufacturing.
Earlier figures were partially retrieved from earlier source reports.

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