By the way, Germany is one of the top 5 exporting countries since decades, so this has little to do with the Euro:
https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/WLD/Yea... https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/WLD/Yea...
Productivity: They work hard, a lot and deliver.
Education: above average and leaning towards being curious
Conservativism: depends on county but is a thing
Innovation: despite conservtivism inmovation is high
Collaboration and criticism: Even though you might be in strong disagree with someone arguments count and once you quickly talked out the differences, intense collaboration towards goal achievemt is obvious.
I worked for 10+ years in continuing education and had students of all age and all infustrial sectors and these have been common shared characterstics.
Favorable characterstics towards success I would say.
(Edited formating)