Dossier Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy per se fulfills important economic functions: It helps to ensure legal certainty, planning security and equal treatment. However, despite several bureaucracy relief laws, entrepreneurs have the feeling that the bureaucratic burden on the part of the state, but also on the part of the self-governing organizations of the economy, standardization institutes and professional associations, is constantly growing.
IfM-Position Paper
In need of a paradigm shift – Rethinking bureaucracy reduction and regulation policies
Highly complex economies and societies need regulations to ensure their ability to function. These ensure legal and planning certainty and prevent corruption. However, especially in the view of SMEs, the "optimal" level of bureaucracy – which is difficult to determine empirically – seems to be far exceeded by now.
According to a recent study by IfM Bonn (Holz, Icks & Nielen 2023), the bureaucratic burden on companies goes well beyond the statistically measured time and cost expenditures.
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8 out of 10
entrepreneurs see their enjoyment of entrepreneurial activity diminish due to the bureaucratic burden.
Policy Brief "Entrepreneurship in Focus"
Patterns of personality: An explanatory approach to innovation in lagging regions?
In the innovation process of lagging regions, which are typically characterized by low levels of private research and develop-ment (R&D) and the absence of large firms ...
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