The ability of German industry to compete on the international market depends to a large extent on the innovative power of its enterprises. The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft sees its task in providing an attractive range of research and development services. To this end, the Fraunhofer Institutes are continuously adapting their profiles to meet current demand, thereby responding to the present and predicted needs of the market. At the same time, they are influencing the development of promising new technologies through their own preliminary research.

This decentralized form of strategic planning at institute level, coordinated within the Fraunhofer research groups, is an important success factor in planning the association’s research activities.