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Joint Innovation Strategy of the States of Berlin and Brandenburg

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The Joint Innovation Strategy of the States of Berlin and Brandenburg (innoBB 2025) was adopted by the two state governments in January 2019. It is the foundation for the continuation of the close economic policy cooperation between the two states in the capital region, which began with innoBB in 2011 as the first interstate innovation strategy.

Two goals form the core of the innovation policy vision of innoBB 2025: to develop the capital region into a leading center for innovation in Europe and to set the right framework so that the stakeholders in the clusters can develop innovative solutions for the challenges of tomorrow.

A broad concept of innovation, increased cooperation across cluster boundaries (cross clusters), the opening of innovation processes as well as sustainability and internationalisation are guiding principles for future actions to achieve these goals.

The focus topics for the work in the clusters are digitalisation, regulatory test beds and testing areas, work 4.0 and skilled workers as well as start-ups and new business ventures.

"Excellence in Innovation" continues to be the slogan for a dynamic capital city region that offers its innovation space in the five interstate clusters:

• Energy technology
• Healthcare industries
• ICT, media and creative industries
• Photonics
• Transport, mobility and logistics

across the borders of the federal states.

Like the innoBB of 2011, the innoBB 2025 takes up the Europe 2020 strategy and forms the basis for its implementation at a regional level. The German capital region will continue to rely on the support and trust from the European Structural Funds.

An answer to the challenges of global competition can be found precisely in participation in networks such as the Berlin-Brandenburg clusters. They cooperate across national borders on the basis of master plans, internationalisation strategies and in interlocking with other strategies of the states in order to maintain and expand their market position as globalisation progresses.

The state of Berlin supports the establishment of interstate management structures in the clusters, which were defined jointly with Brandenburg. An outcome and impact monitoring system (OWM) has been developed to support the cluster policy activities by Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie GmbH (Berlin Partner for Business and Technology). It is a practical management tool for cluster managements and makes it possible to identify and visualise the effects and successes of the clusters. With the help of standardized indicators it is used and implemented at the level of each cluster. At the same time, the common set of indicators offers the possibility of obtaining an overall view of the clusters and the results of the activities. These are processed in published annual reports.

The focus topics and guiding principles are the success factors for actively shaping the cooperation between flatland and metropolis and to make the capital region to a leading center for innovation in Europe.

(last update: August 2019)