NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 9 -- The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development issued the following news release:

By: Steffen Bayer, TNECD Director of Business Development, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg

A little local knowledge can go a long way.

Sometimes in life, you hope for certain things for quite some time, and then you're all the more delighted when they actually happen.

When I was growing up in Erlangen, just north of Nuremberg, Germany, I often passed the Siemens buildings. My father spent his entire career with the company; I completed my first summer internship during high school at one of the facilities and several members of my family still work there. Erlangen is home to Sie...