Article: Ein Wissenschaftswunder? (research and development in West Germany) (Science and Technology)

Ein Wissenschaftswunder?

THE crude figures say yes. West Germany is Europehs biggest investor in R&D, by far. Industry, the federal government and the Lander (states) together stumped up some DM61.5 billion ($32.2 billion) for 1989. According to the Battelle Institute, West Germany and Japan will spend 2.9% of GNP on research and development in 1990, while in America the figure will be 2.5%. America has been sliding down this scale since 1985; Japan and West Germany continue to climb.

A popular fallacy has it that West Germany and Japan subsidise industrial R&D more than America does. Quite the opposite. In West Germany the public sector and ...

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