On the largest industry fair in the world of artificial intelligence, digitization, and mobile radio standard 5G should be at the centre of interest. The German industry associations, however, bubbles of the majority of the tribulation
“Busy today,” says Andreas Lapp, Chairman of Lapp group, the picture that offers itself to him at the booth for his company at the Hannover trade fair. There he saw, together with a whole bunch of journalists, as the Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Löfven pulls together with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on a cable.
Sweden is the guest country of the Hannover Messe in 2019. If Mr Löfven has known before, that he must throw in here, by the same right, diaphoretic, and old-fashioned analog self to the stuff?
The two leaders roll the cable of a wooden drum, and thus help the digital heart (or rather the brain?) to demonstrate to the cable drum: The reports namely a Cloud, how much cable has been unwound and how much is still available – so that the drum finally (!) Supplies can be ordered.
Angela Merkel opened the trade fair. Your zversicht words of chances and opportunities seem to be everywhere belongs to.
The cable rolls out, but the German zagen
This image not only demonstrates to what is the miracle benefits to be a simple, in principle, for centuries, used part of wood capable of, if it only manages it to connect to the Internet. The image also shows that Self-leaders are doing everything to promote the beautiful side of the digital future.
What is not shows the image but expressly, is the despondency of the German industry. No entrepreneurs, no Association representatives, not also refers to the huge opportunities of the new technologies. But at the same time you can see all of the stalls and in many press interviews and publications, hear and read, how big are the Concerns of German entrepreneurs.
Worry because it is feared to have missed the connection. Because of fear of the other (the USA and China would make, especially), the business and the Germans would have to look in the tube. Fear of the EU-the disaffected British would spoil their Brexit-Show business. Fear of the politics in Washington and in Beijing. Fear of fear of other, fear of the inability or the indecision of the German policy.
The others are better!
For example, the VDI, the Association of German engineers. Published on the opening day of the exhibition is a survey showing that only 14 percent of the respondents are members of the Association were of the view that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) is Germany in a “leading role”. There, 61 percent see China or the US (67 percent). 60 percent speak Germany, the competence in the field of AI in principle.
Association President Volker Kefer does not see now, but the engineers in the obligation, but the society – in its personification as a taxpayer and the policy itself, of course: “We know how high the funding will be actually or what pots they come from and especially, where they are designed specifically to flow.”
The others are to blame!
Also, the Verband der Elektrotechnik (VDE) has published for the exhibition a survey of AI in Germany. The result is little different from the VDI-survey. Here too, the expertise in the United States and in China, it is suspected, but not in Germany.
The special feature here: The VDE respondents also universities electrical and information technology. The complain of a shortage of skilled workers (67 percent) and lack of expertise in this country and tight Budgets.
The conclusion of the VDE-President Ansgar Hinz pulls, fits back into the picture: we are to blame, but the other, in this case, the industry. “The basic problem is,” said Hinz, “that the German industry rested on the Status Quo, and thus the connection to the United States and China has missed the digitisation are advancing at all levels.”
And then the British.
There is also the Federation of German industries (BDI) don’t want lack of and ranks in the Phalanx of the admonisher, Warner and Worrier. The Association’s President, Dieter Kempf is turning even a very big wheel and the Berlin policy, not a good hair: “The coalition government gives all our money in the wrong.” Instead of funding the “dangerous to go it alone” in the climate policy (“in the national not to lift it alone simply”) need to start the policy an “investment turbo”, to the digitisation of in Germany, ivory light.
A man shaking hands with a robot the … Hand? As always, it is beautiful when man and machine become friends.
Opportunities for the German industry no longer looks to be Kempf, since you don’t need to be happy, to disappear in insignificance: “We expect a Black Zero.” Growth? . Or if, then only homeopathically low: “only a Plus of 1.5 percent.” And then the Brexit! The hard would be, then, the BDI would need to adjust its GDP forecast to a range of “0.7 percent”.
The week is still long …
Therein Kempf, supported by the President of the Ifo Institute, Clemens Fuest, who sees for the case of a “No-Deal-Brexit” black: “This could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.” Then, you would Shrink from a weak growth of the German economy in a lightweight. Economist Fuest summarises the just how competent this way: “it would be called a recession.”
Despite all the prophecies of doom of companies and associations – for the visitor to the possibilities and opportunities of Artificial intelligence, the digitization and industry 4.0 in focus. And maybe in the next few days, once a Statement by a German Association, which sounds like Confidence. The exhibition lasts until 5. April.