Germany's Innovative Capacity - Innovation Indicator

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Innovation is the key to economic success. The Indicator reveals where we stand in the competition with the most innovative nations.

Innovation is the key to economic success. The 2009 Innovation Indicator reveals where we stand in the competition with the most innovative nations and which deficits we will have to resolve.

• Of the seventeen leading industrial nations investigated under the survey, Germany only ranked 9th after ranking 8th last year
• Companies' non-competitive financing situation big deficit
• The educational system still the main focus
• Progress: More women are studying MINT subjects

In Germany entrepreneurs and founders have greater difficulty finding funding for innovative projects than in almost any other country. The international financial and economic crisis could aggravate this situation further and thus also severely impede Germany's innovative capacity in an upswing. This is the conclusion reached by the "2009 Innovation Indicator Germany" which the Deutsche Telekom Stiftung and the Federation of German Industries (BDI) presented in Berlin. Financing conditions and the educational system are two of the German innovation system's greatest weaknesses. Of the seventeen worldwide leading industrial nations, Germany ranked only 9th in 2009 and thus dropped one place with almost the same score as last year. The USA is the front-runner - despite all the problems there. Switzerland ranks second. Last year's winner Sweden dropped to 3rd place. Ireland, Spain and Italy were the countries least prepared for the international innovation competition.

Further results and charts from the 2009 Innovation Indicator Germany can be found here.