The vast majority of German companies is not considering shifting their research and development (R & D) to foreign countries. Sixty-three percent of companies hold a representative survey of the Donors' Association for German Science Research in Germany, according to the faith. Only five percent of the 1000 respondents want to move research projects and laboratories increasingly abroad.
depends on the commitment to innovation in Germany by company size. While 54 percent of companies with fewer than 10 million euros of R & D activities continue to want to concentrate in the Federal Republic, there are at companies with more than 2,000 employees, 73 percent. "The research in Germany holds its own in global competition. The technology-oriented companies hold the vast majority country in the faith", says Andreas Schlüter, Secretary General of the Donors' Association, "are apparently the company for research and . Development projects in Germany, good conditions in front of "The plus points of the site included universities, which are becoming increasingly open to cooperation with companies and knowledge sharing - joint research projects to the patent value -. Understood as equal role in addition to basic research and teaching, Schlüter A large-scale study of the Donors' Association ("innovation factor cooperation") was shown in May this year that received higher education institutions and businesses strengthened strategic partnerships.
Eleven percent of large companies indicate, however, to try to shift part of the research activities abroad, the average of all surveyed Companies there are only five percent. "Not to worry," says Andreas Schlüter. Because Germany was becoming increasingly attractive to foreign companies and put on additional investment in research. About a quarter of the R & D activities of the economy in Germany in 2005 it accounted for foreign companies in 1995 were there only 16 percent. Besides the attraction of the country itself but also to deceive corporate acquisitions globally active business groups in so Schlüter. Overall, the globalization of industrial research in Germany there is balance: German group sat around in their foreign subsidiaries for R & D as much one, and foreign business groups in Germany.
Those companies that want to relocate their research activities in the future more abroad, justification for this in the first place with better conditions (48 percent). For 33 percent of this step is close to international markets justified, while 27 percent of the state abroad of seats of the company or corporate headquarters. The polling institute Forsa had asked on behalf of the Donors' Association in November 2007, the management level of more than 1,000 companies.
Source: Donors' Association for German Science
