Germany

Hormones in Plastic Water Bottles

Researchers in Germany believe that plastic water bottles pose a h...  Read more

How (Even A Long) Vacation Helps My Start-Up

Entrepreneur Eileen P. Gunn writes about taking time off from her new family travel website to go to Germany with, you guessed it, her family.  Read more

No Breakthroughs in Germany

While in Australia recently, I had a chance to chat with a German businessman who gave me some insight into forces that are pulling Germany in a decidedly...  Read more

It's Time For Fireworks!

July 4th is just around the corner and - not to rain on your pary - but there are folks who are starting to show concerns about how to make those py...  Read more

U.S. Leads in International Patent Applications

March 12, 2007 -- The United States accounted for more than a third of total patent applications filed with the World International Paten...  Read more

Re-employment That Kills Jobs

Quote on job generation and public policy.  Read more

Log On, Bitte

Two on-line databases with directory information on businesses in Germany.  Read more

U.S. Tops Global Competitiveness

Annual ranking cites improved market efficiency and high-tech innovation.  Read more

Refunds for Going Global

If you're exporting a product that's made with some imported components, ask your customsbroker about the U.S. Customs Service's duty-drawback program. Un...  Read more

Compatible Customer Data in Different Languages

March 5, 2007 -- Omikron, an address-management software company based in Pforzheim, Germany, has registered a patent for new technology ...  Read more

Global Business

Related Terms: Globalization Global business refer...  Read more

The Kindest Cut

Competition has sparked a global decline in corporate taxes.  Read more

Country Profiles

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Mr. Matschke hit the nail right on the head. Technology is being transferred out of the United States to foreign countries because of the short-term goal...  Read more

America's Reverse Brain Drain

America's losing its skilled immigrants to other countries, argues David Heenan in his new book, Flight Capital: The Alarming Exodus of America's Best...  Read more

Germans Speed Grants For Small Companies

Only three weeks for the government to decide on a small business grant for research and development? Impossible? Not if you live in West Germany. Read more

International: Cultural Differences

Chart: Survey of 1,157 executives in Europe asking what sales skills their sales representatives lack.  Read more

From Start-Up to Globalization: The 2000 Inc. 500

The technical savvy of many companies in the 2000 Inc. 500 is just one aspect of their high level of sophistication. A number of them already hav...  Read more

Where to Go for Help: Europe

Albania Teuleda http://www.teuleda.org.al/index.php?gjuha=eng <...  Read more

The Defiant Ones

Europe has concluded that it must work harder to recognize and nurture growth businesses, and what that means to you.  Read more

Read My Lips Technology

Don't expect this as an iPhone app anytime soon. But... Imagine this; a mobile phone that reads your lips. The prototype of such technolo...  Read more

China Surpasses Germany as Third-Largest Economy

American businesses to face more competition but more opportunity.  Read more

Seven Steps to Doing Good Business

Devising a system of commerce and production in which each and every act is sustainable and restorative.  Read more

The Snooki Strategy

Each day,  Inc .'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: ...  Read more

Giving Unternehmers a Good Name

The president of Europe's 500, an organization of the European Union's fastest-growing companies, talks about business.  Read more

Rallying Overseas Reps

How one company made the most of a three-day training for its foreign sales reps, held at U.S. headquarters.  Read more

How to Design an Export Invoice

Designing export invoices that comply with business practices in other countries.  Read more

Holiday Shoppers Fear Online Fraud

Though global in reach, identity theft is more prevalent in English-speaking countries, a study finds.  Read more

Can Student Consultants Help Grow Your Business?

Over the past few months, I've been in touch with Becky Oliphant, a professor of marketing at Stetson University ...  Read more

Gas Prices Around the Globe

What are other countries paying per gallon for premium unleaded fuel?  Read more

Is America Really Different?

Data showing the roles small businesses play in European economies compared with the role they play in the U.S economy.  Read more

Will Your Product `Travel' Overseas?

Survey of current international opportunities in five foreign markets.  Read more

Entrepreneurial Terror

Starting a company? Get ready for the most terrifying experience of your life.  Read more

Trading Places: Inc.'s 2008 Export Guide

Who has petrodollars to spend? Where can you sell construction equipment? Jewelry? Management consulting? And where is the market that grew an astounding 55,...  Read more

Join the Club

Think you're too young to sell overseas? You're probably not. Many fast-growing small companies are going global. A poll ofcompanies on the 1993 Inc. 500 ...  Read more

Network: July 1991

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Why Unions Don't Work Anymore

The "scientific" methods that once made labor unions strong are now making them weak.  Read more