National Academy of Science and Engineering
Artificial intelligence
German Federation of Industrial Research Associations (Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller Forschungsvereinigungen „Otto von Guericke“)
American National Standards Institute
Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing
Business expenditure on research and development
Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport
Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Federal Ministry for Research and Technology
Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community
Federal Ministry of Defence
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
Compound annual growth rate
Climate Change Act
European Organization for Nuclear Research
China National Intellectual Property Administration
French National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
German Accreditation Body (Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle GmbH)
U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
German Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies
Digital subscriber line technology
German Centre for Higher Education Research and Studies (Deutsche Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung)
Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation)
European Investment Bank
European Investment Fund
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
European Patent Office
European Recovery Programme
Employee stock ownership option plans
Euro
EXIST - University-Based Business Start-Ups (Existenzgründungen aus der Wissenschaft) support programme
Fraunhofer Society
Full-time employment
Government budget allocations for research and development
Government real budget allocations for research and development
Gross domestic product
German Democratic Republic
Gross expenditure on research and development
Greenhouse gas emissions
Gross national income
Joint Science Conference (Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz)
Higher education institution
High-Tech Founders Fund (High-Tech Gründerfonds)
High-Tech Strategy
Information and communication technology
Industrial Collective Research (Industrielle Gemeinschaftsforschung)
Innovation Program for Business Models and Pioneering Solutions (Innovationsprogramm für Geschäftsmodelle und Pionierlösungen)
Invest – Grant for Venture Capital (Zuschuss für Wagniskapital)
Important Project of Common European Interest
Information technology
International Transport Forum
Japan Patent Office
Korean Agency for Technology and Standards
Korean Patent Office
Korea Standards Association
Megabits per second
Machine learning
Patent Cooperation Treaty
OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies
Purchasing power parity
Public-private partnership
Public research organisation
Revealed technological advantage
National Metrology Institute of Germany (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt)
Research and innovation
Rare earth elements
Recovery and Resilience Facility of the European Union
Small and medium-sized enterprise
Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (Agentur für Sprunginnovationen)
Science, technology and innovation
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
Technology transfer office
Technical university
United States dollar
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Venture capital
Association for Electrical, Electronics & Information Technologies (Verband der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Informationstechnik)
Vocational education and training
Technical Research Centre of Finland
Leibniz Association (Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)
Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research
Central Innovation Programme for SMEs (Zentrales Innovationsprogramm Mittelstand)
Central Authority of the Federal States for Safety Engineering (Zentralstelle der Länder für Sicherheitstechnik)