德国总理施罗德最近宣布,将在近期启动一项名为知识造就市场的政府行动计划,利用政策和经济手段加快科研成果转化为生产力的速度,用新科技引领德国经济的发展。德国是世界科技强国之一,但是自20世纪90年代以来,特别是在当今以信息技术等高科技为基础的“新经济”大潮冲击下,德国经济的发展不仅明显落后于美国,与其它西方国家相比也不具有优势。造成这一局面的原因是:德国科技投入不足导致科技进步乏力;用人体制僵化致使一些人才外流,以及科研成果不能迅速转换为生产力。目前,德国政府已经意识到,德国经济要保持稳定发展一定要更多地依赖于新的科研成果,只有不断地用新技术武装自己,才可能占领并巩固市场。为此,德国政府将从2001年至2003年拨专款一亿多马克(约4300万美元)实施知识造就市场计划,其中一项重要内容是,帮助高等院校和研究机构的 German Chancellor Schröder recently announced that it will soon launch a government action plan called knowledge-building markets, using policies and economic instruments to speed up the transformation of scientific research into productive forces and to lead the development of German economy with new technologies. Germany is one of the most powerful scientific and technological nations in the world. However, the economic development of Germany has not only lagged behind that of the United States in the 1990s, especially since the tide of “new economy” based on hi-tech such as information technology. Other Western countries also do not have an advantage. The reasons for this are as follows: inadequate investment in science and technology in Germany has led to weak scientific and technological progress; the rigidization of the system of employing people has caused some brain drain and the rapid development of scientific research can not be immediately converted into productive forces. At present, the German government has realized that the German economy must rely more on new achievements in scientific research to maintain its stable development. It is only by constantly using new technologies to arm itself that it is possible to occupy and consolidate the market. To this end, the German government earmarked more than 100 million marks (about 43 million U.S. dollars) for implementing marketing plans from 2001 to 2003. One important part of this is to help universities and research institutions