Incentives in Germany

Incentives in Germany are designed to meet the immediate
capital needs of investors. Early stage investment financing
provides funding at the beginning of the new investment
project.

These incentives, mostly provided as cash grants,
are important as they guarantee liquidity at a stage in the
investment process when investor capital requirements are
typically high. Later stage investment incentives are made
available in the form of a raft of programs created to sup-
port putting together a workforce in Germany (e.g. Through
wage subsidies) and provide generous R&D project assis-
tance. Incentives in Germany are available to all investors –
regardless of investor country of provenance. Funding to
the tune of more than EUR 19 billion has been freed up by
the EU (co-financed using means obtained from German
federal and federal state budgets) for the period 2014 to
2020.

As well as this, Germany and its individual federal
states also make their own incentives funds available to
prospective investors.