In a company that is forbidden to work in Germany.

Germany's IT strength, in today's era, is still relatively strong in Europe.

In Europe, there are several important factors to evaluate the strength of a country's IT industry.

Technology exports, innovation, R&D, and broadband penetration.

Can many people imagine that Malta, a small island nation with a population of only 400,000, could become the most powerful IT country in Europe?

It is estimated that not many people know about this country.

In fact, whether it is strong or not really depends on what standard it is measured by.

The volume of exports of technology products, the amount of spending on innovation, R&D, or broadband penetration are measured differently. Scandinavia, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, etc., are relatively leading in terms of telecommunication infrastructure, and they are also top in Europe, where developed countries are everywhere. Germany, on the other hand, has the largest number of patents and is a powerhouse in the IT industry.

Others have an advantage in the value of exports of science and technology products.

Let's start with Malta.

According to Eurostat, the European Commission's statistical agency, Malta, which joined the European Union in May 2004, ranks first among European countries in terms of export earnings from high-tech products as a percentage of its total export earnings, accounting for 55.9 per cent. Eurostat's definition of high-tech includes computers, consumer electronics, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and aircraft manufacturing. And the high-tech services it defines are almost all IT-related, including telecommunications, computers and their related activities and research and development.

In horizontal comparison, the Irish government has made great efforts to attract investment from major manufacturers such as Apple, Dell, and Intel. These manufacturers have established factories and distribution services throughout Europe in Ireland. However, Ireland's high-tech export earnings account for only 29.1% of its total export earnings. This compares to 27% in the United States, 22.8% in Fuso, 22.7% in the United Kingdom, 20% in France, and 14.8% in Germany.

Malta's high-tech industry is also surprising in another sense: the staggering value of its output. According to Eurostat figures, in 2002, the average annual output value of Maltese manufacturers was 21 million euros. This average has been raised by a handful of large companies, such as Methode Electronics, a manufacturer of automotive switches and sensors, and ST Microelectronics, which claims to be Malta's largest exporter.

However, the island nation has fewer than 290 high-tech manufacturers. With more than 34,651 high-tech manufacturers, Italy has the most high-tech manufacturing companies in Europe and almost twice as many as Germany. Italy's high-tech manufacturers account for 6.3% of all its total manufacturers. However, although the number of high-tech manufacturing companies in Italy is larger than that of Germany, it is much smaller than that of German companies, with an average output value of only 1/3 or less of that of German companies.

It can be seen that Malta's strength in the IT industry can be said to be quite strong.

And another country with an extremely strong IT industry, needless to say, is Germany, where Yu Ban is located.

Germany stands out for the fact that high-tech manufacturing companies account for the highest proportion of all manufacturing companies. In 2002, there were 196,700 manufacturing companies in Germany, of which 9.8 per cent, or 19,300, were high-tech companies, compared to an average of 6.3 per cent in the 25 member states of the European Union. Somewhat curiously, the output value of German high-tech manufacturers is slightly lower than that of low-tech manufacturers, with the average output value of both types of manufacturers between 6 million and 7 million euros.

But how to say it, Germany's IT industry can be said to be one of the best in addition to the perverted IT industry in the United States.

Moreover, German IT companies are different from the curry country, which is a little brother to people, and it is also different from the big factories in Fuso. It is a first-class company with real core technology, although the number cannot be compared with that of the United States. Therefore, there are a few companies that are enough to compete with the IT giants of the United States, which is unimaginable in the IT industry in other countries.

For example, Siemens, needless to say, is an absolute giant, comparable to IBM.

SAP, second only to oracle in office software, can also be popular in the rice market, and a lot of rice companies have no temper, which is very long for Europe. Deutsche Telekom, this does not need to be explained, the telecommunications companies in all countries in the world are the same. Infineon, the chip giant, is much stronger than AMD. Computergroup, one of the top software companies in Europe, is not the best, but it is not bad.

Yu Ban's company is the well-known Aispro, which is the SAP mentioned above.

This company is not simple.

Founded in 1972 and headquartered in Waldorf, Germany, it is the world's largest provider of enterprise management and collaborative business solutions, the world's third-largest independent software vendor, the world's second-largest cloud company, and more than 172,000 users in more than 120 countries around the world running SAP software. More than 80% of Fortune 500 companies are benefiting from SAP's management solutions. SAP has branches in 75 countries around the world and is listed on several stock exchanges, including the Frankfurt and New York Stock Exchanges.

The company was founded at a time when IBM mainframes were all the rage. At that time, the so-called application software market, such as financial management software for enterprises, was just in its infancy. While IBM sells very large computers with this software, it is often the customer's job to develop the application. Every customer had to redesign the same software and spend a lot of money on computer consultants. As a result, every programming development for an enterprise is a huge repetitive effort.

The five founders of SAP, all software engineers at IBM Germany, suggested that IBM write off-the-shelf software for large enterprise projects to choose from, but IBM rejected the suggestion and insisted on using custom software.

After their "minority report" was ignored, the five decided to leave IBM and start their own business to develop standard software. On April 1, 1972, SAP was founded. At the time, no one could have imagined that one day it would become the world's largest provider of enterprise application software.

Yu Ban can join this company, which has proven his strength and talent, to be honest, Zhou Fangyuan is sincerely happy for him.

As for the idea of wanting to surpass Zhou Fangyuan hidden in Yu Ban's heart, it is not completely impossible to realize.

As far as the domestic IT industry is concerned, in fact, there are many people who have worked in large foreign companies, and then resigned and returned to China to start a business, and finally laid a solid foundation. Yu Ban's life has changed, and no one knows where he can go in the future, so it can only be said that Zhou Fangyuan has strong expectations for this.

Let's talk about other European countries.

There are 11,800 high-tech manufacturers in the UK, accounting for 7.2% of its total number of manufacturers. High-tech manufacturers in the UK are more productive, with an average output of nearly €10 million, compared to €4 million for non-high-tech manufacturers in the country. The relatively high output value of non-high-tech manufacturers in Germany compared to the UK may be due to the fact that the UK's traditional heavy manufacturing industry is disappearing and the UK is developing its service sector. The ambitions of high-tech companies in the UK are more in the service sector than in manufacturing. Although the number of companies in the services sector per capita in the UK and Germany is about the same, 19% of the services sector in the UK is involved in high-tech knowledge and information services, compared to 4.4% in Germany.

France's high-tech manufacturers are also highly productive, with an average output of nearly 9 million euros for its 16,100 high-tech manufacturers, compared to just 4 million euros for the rest of the manufacturing companies.

R&D investment is one way to help companies and countries stay ahead of the market. According to Eurostat, the average R&D expenditure in the EU in 2004 was 1.9% of GDP, compared with 2.59% in the United States and 3.15% in Fuso.

In Europe, 54% of R&D investment comes from businesses, with the rest coming from governments. In the United States, R&D investment from enterprises accounted for 63%, and Fuso accounted for 75%.

The European Commission wants to spend 3 per cent of GDP on R&D in Europe by 2010, two thirds of which comes from businesses.

So how do European countries achieve this? The Scandinavian countries are closest to this goal. Finland's R&D investment in 2004 was 3.51 per cent of GDP, with a real annual growth rate of 4 per cent. In addition, more than two-thirds of the funding comes from businesses.

Sweden has a higher percentage, spending 3.74 per cent of GDP on R&D, but spending is actually declining by 2.1 per cent per year. However, Sweden met its target of two-thirds of its spending coming from businesses.

Denmark's R&D expenditure is 2.63% of GDP, with an annual growth rate of 4.3%, of which 61% is funded by private companies. Germany's R&D expenditure is 55.1 billion euros, slightly lower than Denmark's, accounting for 2.49% of GDP, of which two-thirds come from businesses.

France's R&D spending is also growing slowly, accounting for around 2.5% of GDP, half of which comes from businesses.

France wants to increase R&D investment by providing incentives to state-owned laboratories. The incentive will name the research center participating in the program as Carnot Labs and will be modeled after the Fraunhofer Institute network in Germany. The incentive, which will be launched next year, will see the French Ministry of Research provide government funding to laboratories that have won corporate research contracts, depending on how many private companies the laboratories work with, starting at 40 million euros.

It is difficult to measure the effect of R&D investment by enterprises and countries.

The European Commission's report "The State of R&D Investment by EU Enterprises in 2005" compares the top 700 companies in the EU in terms of R&D investment with the top 700 companies in R&D elsewhere, ranking about 200 IT and telecommunications companies in the survey in terms of the ratio of R&D expenditure to net sales revenue and the ratio of net profit to net sales revenue. Preliminary analysis shows that there is no clear link between R&D and profitability: none of the top 10 profitable companies make it into the top 10 for R&D investment, and companies with low R&D spend are not the worst profitable. Of course, there is a long delay between the start of R&D and the start of getting results. This overly simplistic ranking approach can only be suitable for one situation: a company in an industry that has been investing in the same product they are selling now at the same pace for 10 years or more.

If today's profits are not indicative of the effectiveness of today's R&D projects, what other way is to measure innovation? One way is to measure the number of patents obtained for new processes and technologies, which can more directly reflect the results of a researcher's labor. However, there is still something that is lacking when it comes to measuring the IT industry in Europe in this way, because a lot of innovation in Europe is in the software sector. As a result of the European Parliament's refusal to adopt a proposed decree on "the use of computers to carry out inventions", the issue of software patents remains in a grey area in Europe.

However, in the field of computing and electronic communication technology, researchers are applying for patents for a large number of inventions. According to the European Patent Office, between 2000 and 2004, the number of patents granted in these fields in Europe almost doubled, from 2,819 to 5,615. Of all European countries, Germany has the highest number of patents with 741 IT patents. In second place is France with 466 IT patents. Finland had 288, the United Kingdom and Sweden had 238 and 221, respectively.

But looking at the world, European countries are still small players in the European patent arena. In 2004, the European Patent Office granted 1,749 IT patents filed in the United States and 1,192 patents filed in Fuso. In 2000, these two countries together accounted for almost two-thirds of Europe's IT patents, although in 2004 this proportion decreased.

In a report on Germany's scientific and technological performance in 2005, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research noted that the annual rate of access to ICT patents in Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States and Fuso was declining, but Finland did not appear to be declining. Traditionally, patent applications in Germany have not yet entered this cutting-edge field, but Germany is moving in this direction because it holds the biggest growth opportunity, the report said. The report also says that greater investment in broadband communications infrastructure is necessary to tap into this growth potential.

According to an IDC report published in June 2005, broadband penetration reached around 18 per cent in Denmark at the end of 2004, while in Finland, Sweden and Norway at around 15 per cent. France and the UK are close to 10%, and Germany is even lower. It also shows that trying to identify the countries with the strongest IT power in Europe is as difficult as trying to hit a moving target.

Of course, Europe, Mi and Fuso, which seem to be powerful, can still be arrogant at this time, because needless to say, the future must belong to China.

Not to mention anything else, just a smartphone has already hammered a number of European companies to the ground, including the United States.

Let's talk about the mobile phone industry, now looking at the world, the former big brother Nokia, is an old and strong enterprise in Europe, and now the mobile phone business has almost stagnated. Motorola in the United States is now struggling to survive. Even if it's a fruit mobile phone,It's only able to compete with distant mobile phones in North America,Not to mention how many political factors there are,Just talk about the choice of the market,Distant mobile phones as the "originator" of smart phones,The cost itself is relatively low,Plus the degree of freedom and stability of the new version of the Android system,Although it will not completely crush the fruit of iOS,But it's not bad。 In North America, the reasons for the stalemate between the two sides are very complex.

But in other corners of the world, almost no mobile phone company can compete with distant mobile phones, Samsung, one of the two giants in the field of mobile phones in the previous life, is now a younger brother in the mobile phone business. Every mobile phone they sell, they have to pay 200 yuan to the Yuanfang Group for system authorization, 200 yuan for a mobile phone, and 10,000 mobile phones are 2 million. It doesn't seem like much, but smartphones are going to spread all over the world in the future.

At least two-thirds of the billions of people in the world use smartphones, and about two-thirds of them use Android, so you can imagine what a lot of income this is.

Yuanfang Group has never considered letting other manufacturers use this system for free, in the previous life, the big G company did this, not to mention the reason, Yuanfang Group will not take the old way, we are freer than IOS, stability and optimization are not bad, so why is it free?