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The Prognos study proves it: Germany's southwest has the best future prospects
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Technology and knowledge-intensive products and services are especially of crucial importance in global competition. The Swiss stock corporation Prognos, which has been advising decision-makers in politics and economy throughout Europe since 1959, has established in a new future atlas those industries and locations that will particularly profit from future stages of growth.
Hence, very good future prospects are found with industries which feature high integration into the world market, which provide industry related cross-sectional technologies and which generate product and process innovations through research & development on a large scale. "Nearly 30 per cent of the employees throughout Germany are nowadays working in these sectors of the economy", ascertained the manager of this study, Peter Kaiser. In addition to the healthcare economy, information and communication technology, process measuring and control technology as well as the research and development services, the fields of logistics, vehicle building and mechanical engineering are also part of it. Though the latter are strongly affected by the ongoing economic crisis, they will, however, retain their relevance as leading industries of the German economy as per Prognos. And in this context, short-term sales fluctuations are supposed to be less decisive for the long-term future prospects than the intensity level of technology and knowledge.
Here it is good news for DESMA that these promising fields are expected to reappear predominantly in Southern Germany and in the big cities. Thus the Prognos study regards the axis Frankfurt - Stuttgart - Lake Constance as one of the top regions where the industries mechanical engineering and healthcare economy become apparent. Many small and medium-sized companies - often family-owned - have worked their way up in a niche to world market leaders with a high export share. Prognos concedes them optimum prospects for the future after the crisis. The district of Tuttlingen where the DESMA group has its German location even ranks 12th of a total of 413 districts and non-county boroughs.
The average German machine builder employs a staff of 154. This business is, all in all, the second largest industrial employer after the automobile industry. DESMA employs 250 people in the district of Tuttlingen, was founded as family enterprise in 1965 until in 2007 it was incorporated via the Kloeckner engineering division into the Salzgitter group.
Further information on this study on the internet under www.prognos.com/zukunftsatlas »
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