By 2050, the people’s Republic of China wants to take in all the key industries, the technological world market leader. The country must be first-time champion of innovation. It is well on the way there.
The fastest electric racing car in the company NIO
Copy was yesterday. Since 2011, China is in the case of patent reports to number one in the world. Of 2016 were notified together in China, more patents than in the United States, the European Union, Japan, and South Korea.This did not mean that the middle Kingdom is already more innovative than all of them together, the reason was a particular predilection of the Chinese: “The Chinese companies to report on many small steps in between while you wait for the German companies, until you are sure that it is a good invention”, says lawyer Thomas Escher of the Cologne office Dompatent on a panel discussion at the Cologne chamber of Commerce and industry.
Panel discussion in Cologne’s chamber of industry and Commerce: Christian Haessler, Thomas Escher, Zhao Yanning and Philipp Kemmler-ermann dorffer (v. l.)
That China has caught up in terms of Innovation, huge, can Christian Haessler of the Covestro AG formerly Bayer MaterialScience is confirm – only. “We have made in the past, a lot of technology transfer from Germany to China, but in the meantime, a Team in China that can at any time make Innovation almost on the Level of Germany,” says the Manager, who is in Covestro for sustainability responsible and years of the research centre in Shanghai headed. Germany and China were in the area of research and Innovation are not competitors, but rather could complement each other perfectly. Germany is still a fantastic technology, the nation has “fantastic infrastructure, working very closely with the industry, but China is fast, pragmatic and flexible,” says Haessler at the German-Chinese business forum, which was held in mid-November by the German-Chinese economic Association in the chamber of Commerce and industry of Cologne. It is necessary to combine the advantages of both sides to each other.
Chinese companies are conducting research in Germany
Dr. Zhao Yanning, Manager Engineering Product Innovation of the EU, Yanfeng Automotive Interiors
That this is possible shows the example of the Chinese company Yanfeng Automotive Interiors, a world-leading supplier of automotive interiors. While Covestro production and research facility in China, opened Yanfeng beginning in 2018, an innovation center in Neuss. Why just Neuss? “Neuss has two international airports nearby, good tracks connected to the rail network and car,” explains the Director of the center Zhao Yanning. In addition, NRW have a good research landscape, so that the company could draw on the talents of the institutes and universities. Your Team consists only of Germans. “We have a very ambitious goal to be the leading supplier for automotive interiors,” says Zhao in Cologne, Germany. With regard to the mobile Internet, China, Germany lost, but in the material research, Germany had still a nose in front.
While Yanfeng is working on the interior of the car of tomorrow, is working for the Chinese Startup company NIO on the automobile of the future. The research work focuses on Autonomous Driving. “Whoever manages to get the car fully Autonomous on the road, has the prerogative of interpretation,” says Philip Kemmler-Erdmann dorffer, NIO-communication-in-chief in Germany. With the technology from the Silicon Valley, the Design of Munich and the money from China, just four years young company wants to compete with Tesla. The smart head of communications, sees a difference in the field of Innovation between China and Germany: “in China, We have a lot more ‘try and error’. Pulling up to the start-UPS. This means that we have a lot more innovation to be the driving approaches. From this, we recruit the various materials for the vehicle and the various digital solutions.”
Innovation protect
Whether in China and Germany: When a team of researchers in a breakthrough, it is important to allow the new technology to protect. In China, only the number of the patent is not exploding enrollments, the number of the patent is increased lawsuits in the last few years. 99 percent of these were domestic cases, reported lawyer Escher. This shows that the Chinese trust in the legal process.
It is to protect not only the inventions, but also the know-how in the minds of the employees. The German companies in the Asian country, is preparing, therefore, the relatively high fluctuation of employees a headache. “There’s a company loses annually by five to ten percent of the workforce. The are of Expertise. Thus, the operation is taken internal Knowledge,” says Escher. He advises German companies to the Chinese to make and also the less technical progress than patents.