Brandenburg
For many years, Brandenburg's economic policy has focused on research, development and innovation. With its regional innovation strategy "innoBB 2025 plus", the state is building on its tried-and-tested innovation policy of recent years and is creating a framework to make Brandenburg's innovation system fit for the major structural economic challenges of the future.
In this context, innoBB 2025 plus encompasses the innovation potentials that result from Brandenburg's special location. In addition, both Brandenburg and Berlin have special industrial potential with great development opportunities.
The state of Brandenburg has been pursuing a sectoral innovation policy since 2006, which was first laid down in a state innovation concept in the same year and had at its core the special support of 16 so-called industry competence fields. In 2011, this conceptual approach was reviewed and further focused. The most promising of the 16 industry competence fields were identified and subsequently developed into 5 clusters from 2011 and into the current 9 clusters from 2014.
On the basis of the strategic approaches from 2011 with the joint innovation strategy of the states of Berlin and Brandenburg (innoBB), the accompanying action plan "Pro Industry", which was adopted in 2012, and the regional innovation strategy of the state of Brandenburg (innoBB plus) from 2014, which is based on the innoBB, it has been possible to develop a number of clusters in recent years. In recent years, a very positive economic development has been achieved. Numerous new cooperation projects demonstrate the improved interlinking of business and science in the region. In the selected clusters, both sales and employment have grown and employment grew significantly faster than in the economy as a whole.
The regional innovation strategy innoBB 2025 plus complements the Joint Innovation Strategy innoBB 2025 adopted by the state governments in Berlin and Brandenburg in January 2019. It transfers the specifications and content requirements of innoBB 2025, which initially relate only to the 5 cross-state clusters, to the 4 Brandenburg clusters of food industry, plastics and chemicals, metal, and tourism, which are economically significant for Brandenburg and hold great promise for the future.
Brandenburg has a number of traditional and revitalized industrial sites and has a corresponding stock of industrial companies and industrial jobs in the sectors of metal, plastics and chemical industries. This potential is to be further developed by dovetailing with Brandenburg's industrial policy guidelines.
Brandenburg is also characterized by a wide range of tourism offerings that differ from and complement those of the federal capital. In interaction with the Brandenburg state tourism concept, further innovation potential is to be tapped via innoBB 2025 plus in order to consolidate Brandenburg's successful development as a tourism region.
The state of Brandenburg also has a strong agricultural sector, which is the decisive basis for Brandenburg's economic structures and specific research capacities for the development of the food industry cluster, and innovative growth impulses are to be triggered. This is to be done by linking the support opportunities that arise from the European structural funds EAFRD and ERDF.
For many years, the state of Brandenburg has focused on the strengthening and growth of regional growth centers with corresponding spillover effects on the respective surrounding areas.
The central basis for a functioning innovation system with successful knowledge and technology transfer is effective and efficient exchange processes between business, science, politics and civil society. This participatory approach is also reflected in the state sustainability strategy for the business sector.
(last update: February 2022)
