"The cooperation of government and private sector in meeting public tasks has a long tradition. Government does not only relieve its administration when awarding the production of its materials to private enterprises. The advantages it gains through the competitive forces of potential manufacturers providing the goods required are even more important. Technical progress linked together with cost reductions are always driven at a faster pace within a free enterprise environment than by the administrative initiatives of the government."

Michael Glos,
Germany’s Federal Minister of Economics and Technology