Answer:
Innovation is one important factor that has made Germany a leading industrial power. Business and industry depends on a continuous cycle of demand and supply, the demand is created by adopting newer technologies and phasing out older ones while the supply of such technologies provide the impetus to industry and business to grow. Other European countries and US too was putting their resources to good use, Germany had the added burden of Treaty of Versailles which, even if diluted by Marshall plan, still burned a considerable hole in their pocket.
