Product Code: ICAL05_701

International Linking of Research and Development on the Model of Laser Centre Hanover
Authors:
Klaus Nowitzki, EOS-European Optical Society; Hannover Germany
Olaf Bker, Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V.; Hannover Germany
Presented at ICALEO 2005

Asia is becoming one of the most important regions in the world from the political, economic and scientific point of view. Germany believes that it is becoming increasingly necessary to cooperate with certain Asian countries especially for scientific and technological reasons. Above and beyond exchanges of scientists, it is increasingly being organized to cover projects with specific targets and to find solutions to important problems. International economic development is characterized by a mixture of competition and cooperation within the context of growing globalization. Germany, as one of the world?s largest exporting nation, must therefore combine its active role in cooperation with these countries in the fields of education, research and innovation with economic cooperation. The Laser Centre Hanover pursues the goal to establish and operate a Chinese German center for training and further education in laser technology and to set up a joint platform for long-term German Chinese cooperation in laser technology. An optimized training-infrastructure, modern production processes support consequently long-term German businesses in China and secures their market-shares. LZH establishes Laser academies for skilled workers and technical decision makers in Shanghai and Changchun together with local universities and German partners.

Through the economic growth, Russia records since more than two years, the economic conditions improve the cooperation between Germany and Russia step-by-step. The main goal of the Russian science-politics is to stabilize an efficient scientific-technical potential with better chances in the world-wide, global competition. The German-Russian science and technological cooperation plays an important role in this context. It has increased in the last years in width and depth considerably and has virtually included all areas of science and technology at present. The region around Moscow is regarded as the by far strongest economic region in Russia. The LZH establishes a testing-, education and consulting-center for laser technology, to support Russian SMEs regarding the use of modern laser technology in production. The technology- und innovation transfer process for German laser manufacturers and research institutes in Russia is completed by the establishment of a German-Russian network for optical technologies.

Both projects are promoted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.