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Data pool "SMEs"
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Geopolitical challenges
Women in the German Economy
Mittelstand (SME) policy
Mittelstand and the European Union
Shortage of skilled workers
Bureaucracy
Challenge climate change
Digitalisation
Business succession in family businesses
Innovation activities
Business start-ups
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Mittelstand definition of the IfM Bonn
SME definition of the IfM Bonn
SME definition of the European Commission
Small Mid-Cap-Definition
Family business definition of the IfM Bonn
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65 years IfM Bonn
DE
EN
Research
Overview
Data pool "SMEs"
Framework conditions conducive to SMEs
SMEs (in) the future
Crisis resistance in the SME sector
Third party research
Data of the IfM Bonn
Statistics
Overview
SME Development Barometer
Overview - Mittelstand
Macro-economic significance of SMEs
Key indicators based on SME definition by the European Commission
Mittelstand - Themes
Unternehmensbestand
Umsätze
Beschäftigte
Auszubildende
Eigenkapitalquote
Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE)
Innovationen
Auslandsaktivitäten
SME in the EU comparison
Digitalization of SMEs in the EU Comparison
Self-employment, freelancers in the liberal professions
Self-employment
Freelancers
Start-up and closure of businesses
Existenzgründungen insgesamt
Gewerbliche Existenzgründungen und Liquidationen
Existenzgründungen in den Freien Berufen
NUI-Indikator
Unternehmensinsolvenzen
Überlebensrate von Unternehmen
Business transfers and succession
Business transfers
Business succession
Publications
Overview
Chartbooks
Daten und Fakten
Denkpapiere
External publications
IfM-Background-Paper
IfM-Materialien
Policy Brief "Entrepreneurship in Focus"
Schriften zur Mittelstandsforschung
Working Papers
Dossiers
Overview
Geopolitical challenges
Women in the German Economy
Mittelstand (SME) policy
Mittelstand and the European Union
Shortage of skilled workers
Bureaucracy
Challenge climate change
Digitalisation
Business succession in family businesses
Innovation activities
Business start-ups
Definitions
Overview
Mittelstand definition of the IfM Bonn
SME definition of the IfM Bonn
SME definition of the European Commission
Small Mid-Cap-Definition
Family business definition of the IfM Bonn
About us
About us
Statutes
Committees
Team
Management
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IfM Research Fellow Network
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IfM History
Annual report
Contact
Vacancies
Press
Overview
Press releases
YouTube
Podcasts
Kurzbefragungen
Dashboards
IfM-Position papers on Mittelstand topics
IfM flyer on Mittelstand enterprises
Newsletter Archive
65 years IfM Bonn
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