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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Regulatory policy is often neglected in the debate about the challenges of the digital transformation and the fight against climate change.

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Have women-led businesses been more impaired by the coronavirus pandemic than men-led businesses? Did female entrepreneurs use support measures to the same extent as their male counterparts?

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More than 3.4 million companies in Germany are classified as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) according to the European Commission's definition of SMEs. This is more than 99% of all private sector businesses in Germany.

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Dr Teita Bijedić-Krumm has been appointed to the jury for the federal competition ʺZukunft Regionʺ organised by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection. The target of the competition is to strengthen the economic power of structurally weak German regions.

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How do small and medium-sized enterprises develop in Germany – and in Europe? Are SMEs in Germany facing the same challenges as small and medium-sized enterprises in other EU countries?

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In the competition for apprentices, micro enterprises (with fewer than 10 employees subject to social security contributions) are increasingly falling behind. Despite a slight increase in the total number of apprentices to over 1.5 million, there were 3.4% fewer apprentices employed in these micro …

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