Innovation Index Germany 2023
Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications GmbH
2024
The expansion of the internet supply network provided additional economic growth of over 5 billion euros between 2013 and 2020. The network expansion project lays the foundation for a long-term increase in value added and prosperity in Germany. In addition, an efficient network enables more flexible reaction to crises.
On behalf of the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications, Prognos analysed whether and to what extent network expansion has strengthened Germany’s innovative power and economic performance and the regions where this has been particularly notable. The result: the Innovation Index Germany IID.2023.
The Innovation Index 2023 confirms the positive effects of the network expansion on the German economy and its innovation strength. The calculations are based on network expansion data from the years 2010 to 2021. The impacts of network expansion have a delayed effect on the respective indicators.
Here are the most significant findings:
Regions across the whole of Germany have benefitted from network expansion
Network expansion as reliable economic support
Network expansion driven digitalisation secures Germany 130 billion euros during the pandemic
The Innovation Index Germany is based on a time and region comparison of the 400 districts and independent cities between 2010 and 2021. Using precise data, the innovation effects of network expansion in Germany are not only presented overall, but also at district level.
Through panel data analysis we estimate the average connection between network expansion and economic, qualification, as well as employment and innovation indicators. Finally, we compared the actual development of an indicator with the development that could have been expected in the absence of network expansion. The result is the respective growth contribution directly attributable to the network expansion.
Already in 2022, on behalf of Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications, Prognos calculated how strong an effect the advancing network expansion really has on the development and stability of the German economy.
The Innovation Index 2023 brings the results up to date with real data and elucidates, in particular, the significance of digital infrastructure for the economic performance capacity of the districts and district-free cities during the covid pandemic.
To the interactive Innovation Index (in German)
To the study (PDF in German)
Further information, in German (Vodafone Institute website)
Project team: Dr Oliver Ehrentraut, Josh Klier, Dr Georg Klose, Philipp Kreuzer, Dr Andreas Sachs, Jonathan-Aton Talamo
Latest update: 25.1.2024
Project Manager
Principal, Head of Digital Development
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