vbw - Bavarian Industry Association
2024
The Bavarian green tech industry is growing significantly faster than the Bavarian economy as a whole. This is the finding of our study on the economic potential of the green tech sector, which we conducted for the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw).
Green technologies are becoming increasingly important. They solve environmental and climate problems while promoting sustainable and innovative developments in the economy and society. The achievements of the green tech industry include renewable energies, technologies to increase energy efficiency, to recover raw materials and materials, and sustainable mobility solutions.
The green tech industry is a cross-sectional industry: it is not explicitly recorded in existing statistical classification systems. With our own Prognos envigos model, we have established a comprehensive procedure for defining environmental technologies.
On behalf of the vbw, we analyzed the Bavarian green tech industry with a view to the following questions: How productive is the green tech industry? What is its current economic significance? What are the development trends? What are the particular strengths in Bavaria?
These are the key findings:
We used our envigos model to analyze the Bavarian green tech sector. This allowed us to conduct a detailed evaluation of gross value added and employment in the environmental technology sector in Bavaria.
We examined various services with relevant environmental benefits on the basis of seven lead markets. In addition, we distinguished four value-added levels to focus on the core areas of green technologies:
The study (PDF, in German)
More information (press release, vbw, german)
Project team: Jannis Lambert, Tim Bichlmeier, Robert Norpoth
Last update: 02.01.2025
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