Council for Innovation and Growth
The Council for Innovation and Growth was an informal advisory body for Chancellor Angela Merkel on all innovation issues. It existed from May 24, 2006 to April 28, 2008 and was the successor to the Partners for Innovation committee that Gerhard Schröder brought into being.
A new advisory structure was discussed at its last meeting. The federal ministries BMBF and BMWi are to work with Acatech to develop a concept proposal for a new advisory structure for the federal government.
The 13 members were appointed by the Federal Chancellor. Heinrich von Pierer headed the council, which included leading personalities from business and science . It did not meet publicly in four working groups:
- Patents
- Business start-ups
- Middle class
- Exchange process (what is meant is the networking of business, science and the state )
Council members
On the part of the federal government
- Chancellor Angela Merkel
- Federal Minister Thomas de Maizière ( Federal Chancellery )
- Federal Minister Michael Glos ( Economy and Technology )
- Federal Minister Annette Schavan ( Education and Research )
From business and science
- Heinrich von Pierer , chairman of the supervisory board of Siemens AG
- Patrick Adenauer , CEO Bauwens GmbH & Co. KG and President of the Association of Independent Entrepreneurs (ASU)
- Hans-Jörg Bullinger , President of the Fraunhofer Society
- Peter Gruss , President of the Max Planck Society
- Henning Kagermann , spokesman for the board of SAP AG
- Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller , CEO of Trumpf GmbH & Co. KG
- Joachim Milberg , President of acatech - German Academy of Science and Engineering and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BMW AG
- Otto-Michael Militzer , CEO of MITEC Automotive AG
- Paul Nolte , holder of the chair for modern history at the Free University of Berlin
- August-Wilhelm Scheer , CEO of IDS Scheer AG
- Ekkehard Schulz , CEO of ThyssenKrupp AG
- Werner Wenning , CEO of Bayer AG
- Dieter Zetsche , Chairman of the Board of Management of DaimlerChrysler AG
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release of the Federal Government of April 28, 2008 ( Memento of the original of October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
