Deep Tech Berlin – Pioneering Tech for Freedom

With the Deep Tech Berlin Agenda, adopted by the Berlin Senate in 2026, Berlin has established a strategic framework for its technology-driven innovation policy over the next ten years.

Under the guiding principle ‘Pioneering Tech for Freedom’, it sets out how Berlin intends to systematically build on its strengths in science, technology transfer, start-ups, capital and scaling. The focus is on the goal of bringing technological innovations into application and value creation more quickly, thereby strengthening competitiveness, resilience and technological sovereignty.

Within this strategic framework, the Agenda focuses on five strategic technology fields:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Biotechnology
• Microelectronics, Photonics & Quantum Technologies
• Advanced Materials & Manufacturing
• Software Technologies

These are linked to relevant areas of application to form innovation ecosystems.

Since 2020, the Deep Tech Berlin campaign has been raising the profile of the diverse landscape of research- and technology-based innovation in the capital. It showcases companies, technologies and people, connects stakeholders from Berlin’s deep-tech ecosystem, and helps to position Berlin internationally as a deep-tech hub.

Campaign objectives:

• To raise the profile of Berlin as an internationally significant deep-tech hub
• To strengthen Berlin’s deep-tech business and innovation ecosystem
• To share success stories of technological innovations from Berlin and raise their international profile

The Deep Tech Berlin Award recognises innovative Berlin-based companies that translate scientific and technological breakthroughs into forward-looking products and solutions.

As Deep Tech Berlin’s annual highlight, the award showcases outstanding innovations and the people behind them, highlighting the technological diversity of the city.

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