What general political and economic conditions must be in place in the new millennium to make Germany an attractive high-tech location?
Wirtschaftsinformatik reports on Germany’s future as a high-tech location
Wirtschaftsinformatik issue 03, 06/2000 by Peter E. Rasenberger and Prof. Dr. Heinz Klandt
“There are clear signs that we are at the dawn of a new global era of entrepreneurship, but the number of start-ups and the climate for creating new businesses vary considerably from region to region. It has been long known in the USA that the vast majority of new jobs are created by start-ups in new industries, while established corporations in classical sectors are cutting back jobs. Thanks to their employees’ strong potential for innovation, fast-growing IT companies are stretching the limits of information technology, a little faster and more comprehensively every day. Silicon Valley today has a higher gross national product than many smaller nation states. Some high-tech companies that were established just a few years ago by university graduates and dropouts are now worth more on the stock exchange than traditional German industrial enterprises, which are now at risk of being taken over by their younger contenders. …”