Insights into UK manufacturing: Fraunhofer Friday

Posted on 19 Jul 2013 by The Manufacturer

Felicity Burch, EEF economist, blogs on her visit to a Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin and what she learnt from the trip.

I recently visited a Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin to see what the UK could learn from these centres. The Institute I visited is one of 66 Fraunhofer Institutes in Germany, which focus on applied research/innovation (this is different from ‘basic research’ of the type typically conducted in universities as it has more of a commercial…

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