Research in Germany: Companies

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Companies

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Companies play an important role in German research: more than two-thirds of the annual funds invested in research come from industry. Although many companies achieve high standards of research themselves, they also invest in collaborations with research partners. Industry-funded research often produces rapidly realisable results and applications.

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Funding for PhD Students

Doctoral positions in research-intensive industrial enterprises offer doctoral students fixed-term work contracts on a part-time basis, industrial and application-oriented research opportunities and good prospects for the time after they have completed their doctorate.

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