From the automobile crumple zone to the Airbus A380, from mosquito repellent to computer tomography: for decades German innovations have promoted progress in a wealth of different waysmore

An interview with Dr Franz Lärmer, Europe’s Inventor of the Year 2007 and advance thinker with the German technology company Bosch, about how a really convincing idea becomes a market success.more

Frank Riemensperger, innovation expert and Accenture manager, speaks about various companies’ successful innovation strategies, mega trends and the opportunities for Germany as a business location.more

There is no recipe for innovations. However, companies can install structures so as to successfully promote good ideas. An expert explains how this is done: Professor Marion A. Weissenberger-Eibl is an innovation researcher and...more

An interview with Albert Speer, the renowned German architect and urban planner, about sustainability, megacities and deserted villagesmore

“Better City, Better Life” is the theme of Expo 2010 in Shanghai. The future belongs to cities – but they face great challenges. The German Pavilion “balancity” presents answers for urban life in the future and is based entirely...more

The Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) is investing heavily in its German research facility in Bochum. The company has not only developed its new smartphone in the city, it has also set up its European quality control...more
Driving a car has never been more environmentally friendly: at the 63rd International Motor Show in Frankfurt in September 2009, manufacturers from all over the world presented new eco-models with hybrid and electric drives....more
The Desertec Initiative: twelve companies are planning a massive 400-billion-euro project to generate solar electricity in the desertmore
Eastern Germany is attracting increasing numbers of international investors. Above all, North American companies have discovered the advantages of the region for the production of state-of-the-art solar installationsmore
From groundwater protection to water recycling, Germany will be presenting a wealth of innovative technologies and ideas for sustainable water management at Expo 2008 in Zaragozamore
New materials, environmentally friendly energy sources, treatments for hitherto incurable diseases, the causes of climate change – these are just a few of the many problems the Research Centre Jülich is trying to solvemore
Their curiosity, ingenuity and hard work enables researchers to constantly surprise us with new and original ideas. What was impossible yesterday is feasible today – and perfectly normal tomorrow. Ten innovative ideas from...more