German companies fell back on R&I during COVID-19 pandemic

BERLIN, May 25 (Xinhua) -- The share of innovative companies in Germany "fell rapidly" during the COVID-19 pandemic, with only one in five considered "particularly innovative" in 2022, according to a study published on Thursday by German think-tank the Bertelsmann Stiftung.

"This will have serious consequences for the (competitiveness) of German companies on global markets," Armando Garcia Schmidt, an economic e