Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Award 2025
Each year, the Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Award acknowledges outstanding innovations and the actors behind them. It is awarded by the Senator for Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterprises of the State of Berlin and the Minister for Economic Affairs, Labour, Energy and Climate Protection of the State of Brandenburg.
What would winning an Innovation Award mean for me?
The Innovation Award 2025 is worth EUR 15,000 per winner. It can be awarded to a maximum of five deserving submissions.1 The prize-winners also receive a certificate, a sculpture and a marketing package for impactful PR. They are entitled to advertise in their marketing campaigns using both the “Innovation Award Winner” logo provided and the year in which the Innovation Award was won. The prize-winners are also involved in certain events within the PR work for the Innovation Award.
For innovations that are of particular social relevance, the jury may grant a special award. This special award is not associated with a prize money, but it does include the aforementioned marketing package and prize winners will be included in further media coverage following the presentation of the awards.
What innovations are awarded?
The Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Award is awarded for innovations of all kinds that meet high standards as defined by the Conditions for Application and have good to very good prospects of market success. The award is given for technical/technological innovations as well as exemplary, non-technical innovations such as organisational and marketing concepts or business models. The focus lies particularly on innovations
• that drive the digital transformation,
• that enable new types of work processes,
• with social added value or significant added value in the field of environmental sustainability,
• that further open up innovation processes (open innovation),
• that contribute to a greater flexibility of work for employees,
• through which production processes can be redesigned,
• that take sustainability into account as a principle of action,
• that implement the principle of the circular economy in processes and products in a significant way,
• that expand existing regional value-added structures and/or create new ones.
The Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Award is closely interlinked with the Joint Innovation Strategy of the States of Berlin and Brandenburg (innoBB 2025). The awards are therefore presented to innovations from the innoBB 2025 clusters:
• healthcare industries
• energy technology
• ICT, media, creative industries
• optics and photonics
• transport, mobility, logistics
More information on how to apply can be found at the official website and HERE.
