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Innovation at Siemens
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Innovation at Siemens: Research based
Answers to questions posed by life.
To maintain a leading position in global competition, a
company has to be innovative.
Throughout the world, Siemens collaborates with hundreds of
universities and public and private research institutes. This enables
Siemens to promote and combine expert knowledge and further develop
its technology and competency portfolio. Siemens innovative solutions to
questions posed by everyday challenges in life require hard work and
serious investment which is evident by the following figures
Our R&D investment in fiscal 2007 stood at 3.4 billion with 32,500 R&D
employees worldwide including 17,500 software engineers in150 R&D
locations in over 30 countries around the world producing 7900
inventions in 2007 resulting in 50, 700 active patents.
Our patent positions in 2006 were Germany: No. 1, Europe: No. 3 and in
U.S No. 11.
Our recent breakthrough innovations include Somatom Definition
(World's first dual source CT), Combined cycle turbine (World's largest
and most powerful turbine; reduces pollutants significantly), Ostar-
Lighting (Brightest LED at 1000 lumen) which won the prestigious
Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2007 award (Award of the German President for
Technology and Innovation)
Siemens innovations now provide answers in the three sectors: Industry,
Energy and Environment and Health Care.