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Photo: ZeissGerman companies are among the most innovative in Europe. At 66%, the proportion of industry-based and financed investments in research and development is particularly high. Environmental research is an example of successful technology transfer, as proven by the growing markets for renewable energies, from photovoltaics all the way through to wind energy. Companies cooperate particularly closely in the field of applied research, working together with globally operating Fraunhofer Institutes and the German Federation of Industrial Cooperative Research Associations "Otto von Guericke" (AiF).