Small an medium-sized entities provide better opportunities to trainees 23. March 2007 by Thomas Jannot The buzzword »Generation internship» makes the headlines. The actual situation of trainees was recently examined in the course of a survey by the Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB). The finding: In 2.3% of all cases companies staff vacancies with former trainees. Thus, each year about 150.000 trainees are taken over by German companies into …
Exhibitors very satisfied with CeBIT 22. March 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to a survey conducted by the German Association for Information Management, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM) the conclusion drawn by exhibitors after the end of the CeBIT show is very positive. The show has shown that private and business customers alike are willing to spend money on digital products.
Sport meets business 21. March 2007 by Thomas Jannot What can businessmen learn from top athletes? The answer to this question is provided by the »Sports2Business« ebook written by Dr. Wolf W. Lasko, Peter Busch and Frank Busemann. Busemann was silver medallist in the decathlon of the Olympic Games in Atlanta 1996 and also Sportsman of the Year in Germany. Lasko and Busch engaged …
Direct investment is not a job killer 21. March 2007 by Thomas Jannot The accusation that direct investment in the ten EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe would first of all lead to a relocation of German jobs to low-wage countries is confuted by a study conducted by the Cologne based Institute for the German Economy (IW). The number of employees in subsidiaries of German companies …
Workshop on how to conquer the Chinese market 21. March 2007 by Thomas Jannot China with its 1.3 billion inhabitants is a very attractive market to European companies from the fields of medical engineering, biotechnology, pharmaceutical industry and medical information technology. So far, unfortunately, many attempts to conquer this important market have failed due to regulatory obstacles, legal uncertainty and patent issues. But also because of insufficient infrastructures.
Labour costs increased by 2.4 percent in Eurozone 19. March 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to Eurostat labour costs in the Eurozone and the EU25 have been increasing less rapidly recently. In real terms labour costs per hour have increased by 2.4% on an annual basis in the fourth quarter of 2006 in the Eurozone (EZ12), whereas in the third quarter 2006 these costs had increased by 2.5%. In …
Inflation rate in Eurozone unchanged at 1.8 percent 19. March 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to Eurostat, the EU´s Statistical Office, the inflation rate in Europe stands unchanged at 2.1 percent. The same goes for the annual inflation rate in the Eurozone which did not change since January 2007 and amounted to 1.8% in February. One year earlier inflation in the Eurozone had been 2.3%.
SMEs attract more and more visitors to this year´s CeBIT 18. March 2007 by Thomas Jannot After the first half of this year´s CeBIT show there is good news reported by the Deutsche Messe AG in Hannover: over the first three days the exhibition has attracted more than 200.000 visitors which corresponds to a 10% increase as compared to 2006. The number of German visitors has even increased by 16%, whereas …
Germany still top when it comes to patents 17. March 2007 by Thomas Jannot As was reported today in Munich by Dr. Jürgen Schade, chairman of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office, on the occasion of their annual press conference, Germany is leading with regard to patent applications. In the year 2006 out of 60.500 patent applications for technical inventions 12.500 were submitted from abroad (+6%) and 48.000 …
ECB published monthly report 17. March 2007 by Thomas Jannot The European Central Bank has just published its monthly report for March 2007. Besides an analysis of the monetary and economic situation the ECB in this report once again explains why it raised key interest rates on the 8th of March and signals at least one further interest rate rise. Economic growth is described as …