2. IBC Internet Business Cluster –
building a powerful and effective Internet cluster in Germany
Stefan Winners 23 January 2012 Page 2
3. 0 German companies
are in the global Top 150 for website reach
Alexa global website reach ranking
September 2011, reach ranking
Top 5 1. Google.com
2. Facebook.com
3. Youtube.com
4. Yahoo.com
5. Baidu.com
.de domains 20. Google.de
in the 73. Ebay.de
Top 100 96. Amazon.de
First German site 152. Spiegel.de Are German websites
out of the running?
Source: alexa.com | Stefan Winners 23 January 2012 Page 3
4. 25x more new capital raised by venture capital companies
in the USA in 2010 compared to Germany
Capital raised by VCs (all sectors)
(in 2010 in EUR billion)
Germany 0.35
USA 9.0
Are the right conditions
in place for start-ups?
Source: NVCA; BVK; gruenderszene.de | Stefan Winners 23 January 2012 Page 4
5. 8x more earned by Google from a single user
than by a German news portal
Revenue per user
Estimate (in 2010 in EUR per year)
German
news portal 1-3
Facebook 3-5
Google 17-20
Are we pursuing
the right strategy?
Source: Business Insider, own research | Stefan Winners 23 January 2012 Page 5
6. more users and 4.6x more content
11x acquired by the US competitors of XING
and HolidayCheck since their foundation
Members Hotel ratings
(in 2011 in million) (in 2011 in number in million)
Xing 11 HolidayCheck 2.2
Linkedin 120 Tripadvisor 10
Are we going international fast enough
or defining our markets too narrowly?
Source: own analysis | Stefan Winners 23 January 2012 Page 6
8. 30% more patent applications per capita
in Germany than in the USA
Patent applications per 1 million inhabitants
(in 2008)
Germany 224
USA 172
How can we successfully extend our
innovative capacity to the Internet?
Source: Wipo, Focus no. 6 2008 | Stefan Winners 23 January 2012 Page 8
9. 52% Airbus share of aircraft
supplied compared to Boeing
Number of aircraft supplied
Boeing 564
1998
Airbus 229
Boeing 462
2010
Airbus 510
Can we be as successful at winning
market share in the Internet sector?
Source: Boeing, Airbus | Stefan Winners 23 January 2012 Page 9
10. 100s of hidden champions and global market
leaders from Germany
Can we build powerful global market
leaders in the Internet sector as well?
Source: Hermann Simon, 2007; wikipedia.de | Stefan Winners 23 January 2012 Page 10