Software, EDP & information services: market innovations Germany 2015

This statistic shows the share of companies with market innovations in the software, EDP and information services industry in Germany from 2008 to 2015. According to the source, companies with market innovations are defined as companies that were the first to introduce at least one new or significantly improved product to the relevant market within the past three years. The indicator measures the share of companies that extended the range of the industry by introducing original products. In 2010, roughly 28 percent of companies in the software, EDP and information services industry introduced at least one market innovation.

Share of companies with market innovations in the software, EDP and information services industry in Germany from 2008 to 2015

Characteristic	Share of companies with market innovations
2015	19%
2014	27%
2013	20%
2012	27%
2011	30%
2010	28%
2009	27%
2008	31%

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January 2017

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Region

Germany

Survey time period

2008 to 2015

Special properties

Companies with at least five staff members

Supplementary notes

According to the source, the German innovation survey is carried out on behalf of the German department of education (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 measuring concepts 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 (= 50 percent of random sample), 843 of which belonged to the EDP and telecommunications sector.

Software, EDP, information services (WZ08 62-63): software development and other programming activities, operation of data processing equipment, software and hardware consulting, data processing services, hosting, operation of web portals, correspondence and news agencies. other informations technology services as well as other informations services.

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