Intralink Insights

East Asia has always been an appealing market for German technology firms and, with growing uncertainties in markets closer to home, has only become more attractive. German companies can no longer afford to neglect the vast opportunities China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan hold!

Tommy Shiekman, Automotive & Mobility specialist at Intralink, tells us why Asia offers huge prospects for western innovators in electric vehicle tech.

Japan has set a bold target to be carbon neutral by 2050 – but it can’t achieve this alone and is looking to the west for its expertise in sustainability and greentech.

This year - the 10th anniversary of Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami – has not only brought back vivid memories of working in our Tokyo office that day, and what happened in the months that followed.

East Asia represents serious opportunities for western automation and robotics technology providers, and this is not just because of COVID. Asia was already fully embracing robotics and industrial automation before the pandemic. And, in a post-COVID world, the adoption of these technologies as well as industries that integrate them - like manufacturing, logistics, and ecommerce - continue their meteoric rise.

The country has always been a leader in mobile and telecommunications, and Samsung has long been a dominant force in handsets and base stations. And, with fully up-and-running IoT networks (LoRa, NB-IoT, Sigfox, LTE-M) and the first global 5G network launched in April 2019, you’d think Korea’s cloud infrastructure would be ready to process the torrent of data produced by millions of interconnected devices.