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Participation in external events Ways out of the bureaucratic burden

Excessive regulation, a lack of realism and insufficient practical suitability are the main reasons why entrepreneurs perceive bureaucracy as an extreme burden.

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Guests at the IfM When entrepreneurial passion inspires

Entrepreneurs who show great passion for their company when talking to potential new employees attract proactive applicants.

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External publications Perspectives instead of myths

Professor Friederike Welter explained in her keynote speech at the University of Siegen's annual event in mid-October why entrepreneurship needs fresh perspectives rather than old myths, using the example of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship.

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Participation in external events Public procurement in focus

Sebastian Schneider presented the problems faced by the Mittelstand companies when applying for public contracts at a workshop organised by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWiK) in mid-October.

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Press release The 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 events Mittelstand 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 events Industrial 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 events Local 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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Awards Best 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 events IfM-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 events Too 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 events Financial 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 events IfM 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 events Insolvency 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 events Entrepreneurship 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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