German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday called for the expansion of digital research and development in the country, as he donned a virtual reality headset. “We must create the framework for this to take place in many places in Germany,” Scholz said during a visit to the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering (HPI) in his constituency in the city of Potsdam, located just outside of Berlin. What makes Germany a country of engineers, technicians and scientists must be cultivated for the future, Scholz said. Cutting-edge research and education in digital sciences and other fields are ne…