With the entire world looking for responses to the coronavirus pandemic, Germany’s pharmaceutical companies are attracting considerable attention. We asked Han Steutel, the president of the German Association of Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies, for an update on the progress in developing anti-corona medications.
German government ministries and a state bank have commenced a “Special Plan 2020” to save companies from bankruptcy because of the virus.
The country’s many centers of research excellence will now be centrally linked to speed efforts to combat the pandemic.
The German government is readying a massive cash injection to help innovative young companies ride out economic difficulties.
Small causes can have devastating effects. Preventing them is the mission of the Berlin start-up LiveEO, which promises “answers from above.”
On the back of a record year for renewable energy sources, experts are particularly hailing a comeback for solar power after some difficult years at the start of the millennium.
As far as people with higher degrees are concerned, migration is a net-sum gain for Germany and a safeguard against “brain drain.”.
Germany’s universities get high marks for innovation.
Germany is, of course, Europe’s largest economy, but it’s also a brand – with a specific intrinsic worth.
The final data is still coming in, but one thing is clear: 2019 was a record year for renewable energy in Germany.
