how brazil and germany are so good in technology ?

Question

just curious to know ???

Answer 1

Brazil
Approximately 1.36% of Brazil's GNP in 2000 was invested into Brazil's telecommunications infrastructure. This large investment helped to boost Brazil's need for a solid telecommunications framework for all other computing activities. It is impossible to support good information technology companies without the underlying infrastructure of telephone lines and internet access.

The Internet Boom was a great time for Foreign Direct Investment. Almost all of the market data available at the time showed an incredible demand for local telecommunications in Brazil. Many of the companies and individuals that invested in Brazil during the boom invested in creating more capacity. "From 1998, when the telecom system was privatized, to 2000, telecom investments reached an average of 1.49 percent of GNP a year, a percentage well above both Brazilian and Latin American historical levels." Like most other FDI exchanges, in 2001 after In 2001, foreign investment in telecommunications declined, but still represented 20 percent of total FDI in Brazil. (40)

The majority of the information I found about Foreign Direct Investment was before the Internet Boom. The only information I found after 2000 was about companies cutting back on investment. This does not mean that there is no FDI in Brazil any more, but it is most likely in very specific areas and far more limited than in the height of the Internet Bubble.

Germany
Of all regions in the world Europe remains by far the most attractive for investors, as indicated by the number of investments made. Ernst&Young conducted a supplementary survey amongst 200 entrepreneurs to obtain a more detailed ranking for the European countries. Here, Germany takes the lead ahead of its competitors in most areas, by a long way in some.

In transport and logistics, Germany is a favourite amongst entrepreneurs thanks to its dense grid of modern highways and in infrastructure and telecommunications on account of its well-developed communications networks. Investors attach at least as much value to the qualification of the German labour force as guarantors of high-quality production as to the outstanding advantage of Germany's domestic market, the largest on the continent: After all, the country at the heart of the enlarged EU makes up nearly a fifth of the single market alone. In all these areas – and in research and development again – almost every second entrepreneur questioned put Germany in first place. Every sixth even expects Germany to record the highest productivity growth, more than for any other country. This too attests to confidence in the continued ability of the German economy to adapt to change.

Over 10,000 foreign enterprises employing more than 2 million personnel with an annual aggregate turnover of EUR 750 million are located in Germany. A look at some details in the Ernst&Young survey reveals the reasons for its popularity. The entrepreneurs place Germany at the top in three categories - infrastructure and logistics, research and development and design. When it comes to investments in these business segments, international companies know no better location.

The outstanding rating given to framework conditions for research and development in particular is proof of the confidence placed in German competitiveness in new technologies. Germans are plainly also considered best able to give products an appealing design

Also important for Germany, the world's biggest goods exporter in 2003, is its No. 2 ranking as a production location right behind China. Germany is not known for its low production costs. It is the ‘Made in Germany’ quality of its products that makes it attractive.

Answer 2

My half-educated guess is, since those two nations are otherwise so different in culture and resources, that it boils down to the non-material things Germany and Brasil have in common:

--ambition, and a desire to work hard and actually, oh no, *have a place* in the future of the planet, **gasps** oh the horror, you mean the fundie sheeple *aren't* going to bring about the End of the World after all?

--a willingness to *let* the government invest heavily in both people and technology *without* all of the local media, political pundits and grass-roots activists *pissing and moaning endlessly* about taxes and about how "government shouldn't interfere, we just need to let the Companies own it all".

Ok, ok, heavy sarcasm aside.....it seems Brasil and Germany do have something in common after all: They are both moderate socialist states (yes! Such a thing is possible!) that *also* have one of the things you NEED to make Socialism work, a *hard working* citizenry.

Just my half-educated guess, take it as you will.

Answer 3

They have a lot of students without any hope of finding a job upon graduation. The students know it and don't waste time looking for jobs writing open-source programs instead...

Answer 4

germany is like the kind of people who...umm....work their buts off...when hitler took over they worked sooo hard....so now.....as u can see gernamy are forcefull....so therere strong

Answer 5

Because both are great soccer countries!