At a glance
| Booth | K2760 |
| Country | DE |
| Website | www.gtai.de/en/meta/events/semicon-taiwan-2018570 |
Company profile
Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI) is the economic development agency of the Federal Republic of Germany and was established in 2009. GTAI supports German companies entering international markets, promotes Germany as a business and technology location, and assists foreign companies with investment and market entry in Germany. With around 60 offices worldwide, the agency provides market intelligence, investment consulting, and access to regional business ecosystems and partners, while its international-office network complements its headquarters in Berlin. Semiconductors are one of GTAI's strategic industry priorities, and the agency promotes Germany's semiconductor ecosystem internationally while informing potential investors about locations, industry clusters, market opportunities, incentives, and the overall investment environment. Germany currently produces more than one-third of Europe's chips, with major semiconductor clusters identified in Dresden/Silicon Saxony, Bavaria, and Baden-Württemberg. GTAI provides information on policy and funding initiatives including the EU Chips Act, IPCEI Microelectronics, IPCEI Advanced Semiconductor Technologies (AST), Chips for Europe, and the German Chips Competence Centre (G3C), but does not administer those programs directly. Its role is instead to act as an investment-promotion and market-entry interface that helps international companies navigate Germany's semiconductor ecosystem, R&D infrastructure, and investment opportunities. For Taiwanese companies, GTAI identifies TSMC/ESMC's investment in Dresden as a development that strengthens Taiwan-Germany semiconductor cooperation and creates opportunities for Taiwanese equipment, materials, and technology suppliers considering expansion into Germany.
Exhibits
Germany Trade & Invest provides consulting on individual market-entry strategy and information on finance and incentive options for companies evaluating business expansion to Germany. For international companies, GTAI helps identify suitable investment opportunities in Germany and offers advisory and project-support services at all stages of the investment process to support business start-up. Its support covers the process of setting up a business in Germany and can be tailored to a company's specific planned venture, allowing the investment project to be framed around the customer's actual expansion requirements. GTAI's industry-expert teams assist companies in establishing business operations and support project-management activities from the earliest stages of an expansion strategy. The agency also presents experience helping international companies of different sizes set up business in Germany and uses company success stories to illustrate location decisions and establishment projects. Its investor support is available through teams in Germany and offices around the world, giving companies access to experts before and during market-entry and establishment work. For semiconductor investors, this service is complemented by market intelligence and information on German locations, industry clusters, R&D infrastructure, market opportunities, incentives, and the broader investment environment. GTAI therefore connects market-entry strategy, finance and incentive information, location and ecosystem information, and project support into a business-expansion service for companies considering Germany.
Capabilities and products
- Germany market-entry strategy consulting
- Germany financing and incentive information
- Germany investment opportunity identification and consulting
- Germany business-establishment project support
- Germany semiconductor location and ecosystem information