A New Culture Innovation for Germany
The German government wants to make 2004 a year of innovation. " We
want to see Germany in a leading position with regard to inventions
and other innovations in research and technology," Chancellor Gerhard
Schröder said in his New Year's address. In an interview granted to
the weekly news magazine "Spiegel" Schröder noted that there are too
many restrictions on research in Germany.
A country such as Germany, which is poor in raw materials and has a
wage-intensive economy, can guarantee and increase its prosperity only
by making innovative products based on knowledge and competence. Now
that necessary reforms of the social security systems have been passed
the German government wants to devote more of its attention to the
second side of the Agenda 2010 program, i.e. to an offensive on
innovation. It is only by means of innovation that growth and
employment can be guaranteed in Germany on a sustainable basis.
Innovation, the second side of Agenda 2010
In an interview published in "Spiegel" on January 5 Chancellor
Schröder noted that two things are meant by innovation: investments in
research and development by government and industry, on the one hand,
and the creation of a competitive educational system, on the other.
Schröder criticized the fact that stronger investments in
biotechnology are being called for in Germany on the basis of the
economic potentials they hold out while, at the same time,
restrictions are being imposed on research in this area.
Schröder assumes that public debate will continue on biotechnology and
genetic engineering as well as on stem cell research. As new knowledge
is accumulated the German parliament will be faced with the need to
reassess its past decisions in the light of this new knowledge.
A new culture of innovation
In an article published in the December 30 issue of the business daily
"Handelsblatt" Schröder said Germany needs a new culture of
innovation: "This includes a need for greater public acceptance of
innovation and a broad public debate on the opportunities and risks
Germany’s Economic System the Federal Republic of Germany’s economy has now flourished despite its harsh times that have been faced throughout the decades. Most people know about Germany from its historic involvement in World War II; its successful campaign to unite East and West with the successful collapse of the Berlin Wall; and its world class development and production of automobiles. Unfortunately, what most people don’t know is that Germany continues to fight an uphill battle in keeping its established ranking among the world’s most important economic powers.
•The Heritage Foundation. (2014). 2014 Index of Economic Freedom. Retrieved from The Heritage Foundation: http://www.heritage.org/index/country/germany
Following the Second World War, Germany was rebuilt out of practically nothing into one of the richest countries of the world. This well-known transformation is known as the "Wirtschaftswunder" (wonder of economics). Yet in the recent reunification of West and East Germany, German leadership has ignored crucial lessons from this successful period of transformation. Three problems highlight this claim:
“Our Future Selves” by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen construct views on countries’ technologies that changes the world on a daily basis. Conversely, technologies reconstruct countries in various simpler ways to live throughout economic trends. Furthermore, the quality of life is massively changing with new technologies. Consequently, wealthy countries are viewed differently from poor countries towards technological advantages. Ordinarily, technologies have made the difficult obstacles so much easier than just by hand. Industries have utilized the advanced technologies to provide huge manufacturing productivity. Moreover, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen have some very compelling reservations within their article, “Our Future Selves”, on the trends
From a researcher or policymaker's point of view and on an international scale, policy analysis and management professor Andrea Parrot stresses that ethics are culturally and historically determined. When members of one culture try to impose their ethics and values on another culture, the situation is inherently complex.
Even though it’s a stereotype that the German people are extremely hard workers, they can still have fun. Germany is a country that contains roughly around 81 million people. 95% of those able bodied people are employed and working. Industries hire one third of the German workforce, while others work in some other way. Germany has many factories and it also mines a lot of coal, as it is one of its’ most important resources. Al...
The poems “Yet Do I Marvel”, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, and “Tenebris” by Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Angelina Grimké, respectively, reflect attitudes towards the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance, which spanned the early twentieth century, brought about an explosion of African American culture that spread throughout the world. These poems use the figurative language techniques of allusion, personification, and imagery to reflect the ideas of many participants in the Harlem Renaissance, including revolution and unfairness.
Culture is a way of living; a total way of life held in common by a group of people, including speech, religion, behavior, technology, livelihood, government, and the local way of doing things. Cultural geographers observe material culture elements and the physical landscape to determine how humans have impacted the area, which is what we were assigned to do for our project. We were asked to focus on a specific suburb and observe the ethnic culture there by housing types, shops, organizations, etc. The suburb I chose was Lincoln, RI. I travelled there to take photographs of the area to help me understand its culture. I used all of this information to determine the changes it has undergone throughout the years, reflecting its citizens' lives.
Success in any organization is often determined by how effective organizational leadership manages cultural change. People naturally resist change of any kind, especially when that change affects the way they work. As a result of this resistance to change, any organizational culture change is likely to negatively affect employee morale. Employees will complain and resist this change, asking why it is necessary. In order for cultural change to be accepted by employees, one must anticipate this reaction and prepare for it. In order to do this effectively, one must be able to identify morale barriers that may affect organizational success for change. This can be accomplished by performing an effective organizational assessment, to assesses employee morale and there resistance to change (Dye, 2014).
Nurses might be surprised to know how many people from the German culture are in the United States. For the health professional it is especially important to know what health care concerns might be specific to the German-American patient. They also need to be informed because of German travelers who might be visiting or temporarily living in another country and are in need of care. According to the United States Census Bureau, (2012) out of the 307,007,000 people in the United states, the majority ancestry group comprising the population is German. There are 50,708,000 people whose ancestry was of German descent, (U.S. Census Bureau, 2012). In the United States there are a lot of cultural influences that come from Germany for this reason. It is important to remember that according to the US census Bureau, (2012) 1,109,216 people in the United States who are able to speak English also speak German. The current paper will give an overview of the German culture, a presentation of the six components of the Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model, and an explanation of how the nurse can incorporate these important key points in their daily patient care to provide optimum health care for a German patient.
It is increasingly clear that media and culture today are of central importance to the maintenance and reproduction of contemporary societies. Cultures expose society to different personalities, provide models, which display various forms of societal life and cultivate various ways to introduce people into dominant forms of thought and action. These are the types of activities integrate people into society and create our public sphere. Media and technology surround our society; engrained into the fabric of our existence so much so, that it has become hard to find an aspect of life not influenced by its effects. For this reason, media controllers, wield extreme power and influence over the lives of everyday people. Although, they increasingly continue to feed the audience trash, despite their authority as the creator of our social/cultural interactions, and justify their actions by calling themselves industries. Reducing themselves to just businesses whose sole purpose is to create a profit. This admittance of what they feel to be their true purpose however does not hinder their control and power but instead adds to it. Creating a need for there to be some way to analyze and discuss whether they are using their position and power wisely. Filling this void, scholars have theorized ways for individuals to be critical of the media that they intake. One of these critical theories is the “Culture Industry” theory. Using Cultural Theory, as well as other complementary neo Marxist theories, it is possible to determine how Stacy Peralta, once urban youth culture advocate, became incorporated into the superstructure through media use, thus making him a tool for the continued commoditization of society, and a youth marketer for industries l...
Despite the favourable outlook of Germans regarding reunification, its initial stages were unsuccessful in establishing a foundation which Germany could answer the people’s dreams of peace, prosperity and unity. The collapse of communism in Europe signified a change in people’s ways of thinking due to the fact East Germans had experienced suppression for forty years. Subsequent to the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the March 1990 free elections, a positive outlook for the future and belief in freedom began to proliferate amongst East Germans. German Chancellor Kohl took an optimistic outlook for the future, and believed German free enterprise would create ‘economic miracles’ . This new method of thinking was growing within the East of Berlin before the problems of reunification that soon grew within society.
Russia culture is very different from any other culture that I have ever read about. This is a country that is dominated by males. Males actually run the county of Russia. The men are so dominated that every Russian women dream is to be married and have a family with these men. Russia is known for its poor society. In the book Sakharov he mentions how he moved from one place to another. He first was in Moscow’s larger apartments with his family. In this apartment there were six families. With thin the six families they had to share the kitchen and the bathroom. Then he states that he moved into a very old house and in this old house there was a leaking ceiling. With in this house there were still six families that shared everything. (Sakharov 24-25)
The establishment of the German modern era began at the turn of the 20th century. Eksteins verifies this conviction by stating that Germany made tremendous industrial improvements, during this time. Among these industrial improvements was the introduction of a massive steel industry. Although Germany produced steel prior to 1900, it had never competed with the other European powers. “By 1914,
In the 21st century, the country has changed laws to accommodate different cultures. We are a “melting” pot and must respect that our nation is forever changed and forever changing. To close our eyes to see this is like closing our minds that it is happening.