IVAM Executive Panel, April 2012: New funding landscape makes innovation financing difficult

A re-structured funding landscape and the succeeding financial crises may hamper the innovative strength of the microtechnology industry in Germany. In a survey among industry experts and scientists, 43 percent say that financing innovation has become more difficult in the past four years.
 
After pertinent funding programmes have been abandoned, it has become more difficult for small and medium-sized enterprises to identify appropriate programmes. Above that, the experts feel that both, federal and state governments are providing fewer funds for industrial technology development. They are, however, still supplying sufficient funding for application-oriented research and development.
 
The IVAM Executive Panel is a group of selected experts and opinion leaders from industry and science.