10-02 :: February 2010
nanotimes
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Reports
Business development in the European micro, nano and materials industry in 2009
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the responding companies has reported an impro- whereas in the rest of Europe it were only 44%. It
vement in its funding situation in 2009. The current is likely that the car scrapping scheme has caused a
restrictive approach to lending is gradually becoming short term boost to the benefit of the car producers
a life-threatening problem for many high-tech com- and their supplying industries.
panies. If the situation on financial markets, the
willingness of banks to lend and the willingness of How the markets are going to develop after the
the companies to invest in research and develop- scheme has expired in the course of 2010 remains to
ment do not improve again soon, the industry may be seen.
be facing a massive growth problem.
Among the target markets of the German micro,
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nano and materials companies, the automotive in-
dustry has replaced the medical technology indus-
try as the most popular market for the first time in
years. Slightly more than half of the German compa-
nies (51%) supplied the automotive industry in 2009,
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