IfM Bonn News

Prof Dr Dr h.c. Friederike Welter honoured the 25th anniversary of EXIST start-ups from science in her keynote speech in Berlin at the beginning of June. She highlighted the development and significance of the state funding programme.

more

Around 2% of all self-employed women have a child every year. About a quarter of these women have health insurance with daily sickness benefits, which are paid during the maternity protection period. The benefits paid by health insurance companies for this are in the low millions.

more

Public childcare provision influences the start-up activities of both women and men and therefore also the gender gap in start-up activities.

more

Many Mittelstand enterprises are involved in global value chains as suppliers – or even as lead companies. Due to the growing geopolitical crises, this integration becoming increasingly risky.

more

Überwiegend herrscht in den mittelständischen Unternehmen in Deutschland Konsenz darüber, dass es der ökologischen Transformation bedarf. Aktuell besteht jedoch die Gefahr, dass ein zu hoher Detaillierungsgrad sowie eine überbordende Zertifizierungspflicht zu Ausweichstrategien führen könnten.

more

Im vergangenen Jahr starteten mehr Gründerinnen und Gründer in der Land- und Forstwirtschaft (+ 4,5 %) sowie in den freien Berufen (+ 1,7 %) als in 2022. Dagegen sanken die Existenzgründungen im gewerblichen Bereich geschätzt um 5 %.

more

Managers surveyed for the Mittelstand Panel 2023 identified the shortage of skilled workers as their biggest challenge in 2023, just as they did in 2021 and 2022.

more

Dr Annette Icks and Michael Holz believe that a paradigm shift in politics is needed to efficiently reduce bureaucracy. They presented their findings at an event organised by the New Social Market Economy Initiative in Berlin on 22 May.

more

What characterises an entrepreneur? What are the basic needs for start-ups?

more

How can economic and financial policy measures strengthen growth potential in the long-term? Does the risk exist that structural change and transformation will lead to deindustrialisation in Germany?

more

Dr Constantin Terton (German Confederation of Skilled Crafts; ZDH) called for a return to the social market economy and a focus on the values of individual responsibility and performance orientation at today's Mittelstand Roundtable in Berlin ...

more

Handwerk NRW e.V. and the Düsseldorf Chimney Sweep Guild have today in Düsseldorf awarded Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Friederike Welter with the Florianplakette.

more

Public procurement law will be amended in the current legislative period in order to promote both the legal certainty of award decisions as well as SME-friendliness.

more

How do the many challenges currently facing SMEs affect the succession process? Does the younger generation lack the courage to be entrepreneurial?

more

Der Wirtschaftsraum Silicon Valley gilt als vorbildlich. Immer wieder zieht er Führungskräfte, politisch Verantwortliche und Forschende an, die das kalifornische Erfolgsgeheimnis erkunden – und im besten Fall auch in ihrem Land umsetzen möchten. Doch ist das Silicon Valley wirklich so vorbildlich – …

more