TY  - RPRT
AU  - Syka, Ideal
TI  - Firm Size and Sector Gaps in Enterprise AI Adoption: Germany and the EU-27 in 2025
T2  - i6eal Research Notes in AI Economics and Digital Policy
M3  - 2026-01
PY  - 2026/07/31
PB  - Syka Ventures UG (haftungsbeschränkt), i6eal
UR  - https://i6eal.de/research-notes/firm-size-sector-gaps-enterprise-ai-adoption/
L1  - https://i6eal.de/research-notes/files/i6eal-rn-2026-01.pdf
KW  - artificial intelligence
KW  - technology adoption
KW  - firm size
KW  - sector heterogeneity
KW  - Germany
KW  - European Union
KW  - digitalisation
AB  - This research note uses harmonised Eurostat ICT-usage statistics to describe enterprise artificial-intelligence adoption in Germany relative to the EU-27 in 2025. The population covers enterprises with at least ten employees and self-employed persons in covered non-financial NACE activities. AI use is reported by 25.97% of German enterprises, compared with 19.95% in the EU-27, placing Germany eighth among member states. Adoption rises sharply with firm size in Germany, from 23.06% among enterprises with 10–49 employees to 56.99% among enterprises with 250 or more. Germany exceeds the EU-27 aggregate in each of eight displayed activity groups, with the largest difference in information and communication (75.38% versus 62.52%). The comparisons are descriptive, not causal. Survey flags, missing values and denominators are retained, and a reported German enterprise-definition break in 2025 limits longitudinal interpretation.
LA  - English
ER  -