Trade Minister Steve Ciobo​ unveiled the landing pad, saying it would give Australian entrepreneurs unprecedented access to Berlin's well-established innovation market which has strong links between potential funders of start-up companies.

"The Berlin landing pad will provide Aussie tech companies access to not only the dynamic venture capital market in Germany, but through it to the wider European market," he told Fairfax Media.

On his recent first official visit to China, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull unveiled a similar facility in Shanghai. The government has also announced landing pads in Israel's start-up centre Tel Aviv and in San Francisco's Silicon Valley. A final city is to be unveiled soon.

Connecting start-ups with venture capital is considered to be one of the Australian innovation sector's weakest aspects.

Mr Ciobo told an audience in Berlin the location for the global landing pads were no "fluke of geography".

"They are also centres which attract and secure venture capital," he said.

"The choice of Berlin highlights the strength of German innovation and industrial research, and the important role of German companies in global supply chains.

"The city boasts a well-established innovation ecosystem of incubators, accelerators and angel investors, and is well supported by partnering services such as Berlin Partner.

"Australia's landing pads in these locations are designed to give our start-ups the chance to work alongside some of the best in the world."

Germany is a low-cost business centre and Berlin is considered the country's start-up capital. The city has overtaken London as Europe's leading venture capital hub.

The "landing pads" are part of the prime minister's plan to push research and innovation to the fore of economic policy as the mining boom wanes.

They will offer physical space for Australians to work from as well as an open door to existing innovation networks in each country.

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