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Press releaseThe Enterprises who use artificial intelligence benefit from it

What opportunities does artificial intelligence (AI) offer for the Mittelstand? What framework conditions favor its application in companies? These questions were discussed today in Berlin by international entrepreneurship researchers together with representatives from SME policy and economy.

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Participation in external eventsMittelstand and Deindustrialisation

Research conducted by the IfM in Bonn has shown that only a small number of the Mittelstand managers are actually seeking to relocate production sites abroad. Nevertheless, there is a tendency towards setting up additional production facilities in foreign countries.

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Participation in external eventsIndustrial regions in the face of Digital Transformation

What kind of development potential do rural industrialised regions have? How do demographic change, digitalisation and decarbonisation affect these areas?

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Participation in external eventsLocal factors for the Mittelstand in Cologne

Which are the location factors that favour the Mittelstand entrepreneurship? At the beginning of October, Peter Kranzusch presented an answer to this question from an academic point of view, using Cologne as an example.

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AwardsBest Paper Award Nomination

The paper "Family Business Succession caught between transgenerational Continuation and firm Performance" by Dr André Pahnke, Dr Rosemarie Kay and Dr Susanne Schlepphorst has been nominated for the Best Paper Award at the 19th EIASM Workshop on Family Firm Management Research in Barcelona/Spain at …

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Participation in external eventsIfM-research at the G-Forum

Dr Rodi Akalan showed in his presentation at this year's Interdisciplinary Annual Conference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and SMEs (G-Forum) in Ingolstadt at the end of September how text mining can be used to identify opportunities and threats for SMEs at an early stage.

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Participation in external eventsToo much bureaucracy hinders not only growth

Dr Annette Icks and Michael Holz presented the results of their various studies on bureaucracy at the annual meeting of the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce at the end of September.

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Participation in external eventsFinancial security for self-employed mothers

In contrast to women in paid employment, self-employed women are not entitled to maternity benefits under the Maternity Protection Act.

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Participation in external eventsIfM publication reaches the final round

The policy brief ‘Paradigm shift for tangible bureaucracy re-duction’ by Dr. Annette Icks and Michael Holz reached the final round of the ‘Ordnungspolitischer Preis der Familienunternehmer’ (Family Business Owners' Prize for Regulatory Policy) in mid-September.

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Participation in external eventsInsolvency application does not automatically mean closure

The number of companies declaring insolvency has in-creased in recent months. "However, large companies in particular use this ap-proach to restructure with the help of an insolvency plan or self-administration. ..."

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Participation in external eventsEntrepreneurship research and AI

Does artificial intelligence (AI) offer added value for entre-preneurship research? Or can AI also hinder the research activities of scientists when it only has the sources that have been entered?

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Participation in external eventsSMEs in the face of transformation

How the Mittelstand enterprises are tackling ecological and digital transformation? What role does the Mittelstand policy play? Dr Christian Schröder discussed these questions at the "Handwerk um Zwölf" event, to which Handwerk.NRW regularly invites online.

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Press releaseNUI Regional Ranking: Leverkusen replaces Munich District at the top

The city of Leverkusen has replaced the Munich district at the top of the NUI regional ranking after five years. The district-free cities of Baden-Baden, Rosenheim and Offenbach am Main, as well as the district of Starnberg, follow in the further places.

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Press releaseStill more main branch business start-ups compared to closures

In the first half of this year, more main branch businesses were established in Germany (46,000) than were closed (34,000). These include startups with a commercial register or craft roll entry, or with one or more employees.

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Press releaseThe Maternity Protection Act does not apply to self-employed women

Around 27,000 self-employed women have born a child each year. Unlike women in regular employment, they are not entitled to maternity benefits under the Maternity Protection Act, as it does not apply to them. However, they can voluntarily secure their income during the maternity leave periods before …

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