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External publications

All publications that IfM scientists have published externally are compiled here.

250 Results

External publication | 2025 Entrepreneurship Education II. Curricular approaches, skill orientation, content analysis

This anthology addresses a broad spectrum of didactic factors of entrepreneurship education in the context of economic education in a theoretically sound manner.

External publication | 2025 Report on Research, Innovation and Technological Performance in Germany 2025

The Expert Commission wants to use its 2025 annual report to solve the challenges mentioned from an innovation economics and R&I policy perspective.

External publication | 2025 Report on Research, Innovation and Technological Performance in Germany 2024

The 2024 Annual Report of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation should be read against the background of this tension between multiple current crises on the one hand and long-term transformation requirements on the other.

External publication | 2025 Report on Research, Innovation and Technological Performance in Germany 2023

The Commission of Experts’ Annual Report 2023 contains several proposals for new governance structures.

External publication | 2025 Bureaucracy costs of companies in the mechanical and plant engineering industries – follow-up study 2025

This study analyses the bureaucratic burden caused by regulations of the EU, central government, federal states and municipalities in the German machinery and equipment manufacturing industry.

External publication | 2025 European SMEs, Corporate Finance, and Economic Resilience to Floods

The authors investigate how the debt-to-equity ratio and maturity structure of SMEs influence their resilience to flood disasters.

External publication | 2025 Public childcare – a neglected element of entrepreneurship ecosystems?

The authors explore in their chapter the impact of public childcare provision on women’s and men’s start-up activities in Germany.

External publication | 2025 Legitimacy of women entrepreneurs: forced to behave according to rules?

The authors analyse in their contribution whether female entrepreneurs behave strategically differently to their male counterparts when dealing with bureaucracy.

External publication | 2025 How women-led businesses fared in the Covid-19 pandemic

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?

External publication | 2024 The equity crowdfunding choice: A demand-side perspective

In recent years, equity crowdfunding has become increasingly popular for capital-seeking start-ups.

External publication | 2024 Determinants of Hidden Champions

This study explores the factors that affect the likelihood of German companies to be a hidden champion.

External publication | 2024 Legitimacy of women entrepreneurs: forced to behave according to rules?

Legitimacy is essential to ensure the continued existence of companies. Depending on whether stakeholders consider entrepreneurs’ behavior to be appropriate, they decide whether to provide entrepreneurs with resources.

External publication | 2024 How women-led businesses fared in the Covid-19 pandemic

The authors investigate how female-led businesses were impaired by the Covid-19 pandemic, to what extent they used support measures, and what operational measures they took to counter the consequences of the pandemic.

External publication | 2024 The protection against social risks: a particular challenge for hybrid employees?

Hybrid self-employment - the parallel pursuit of self-employment and paid employment - has steadily increased over time.

External publication | 2024 Collaborative innovation processes: An opportunity for successful dual transformation in the SME sector

The framework conditions under which SMEs innovate have been undergoing serious changes for some time now: The digital and green transformation is changing products, production and communication processes. This change, coupled with a growing shortage of skilled labour, is increasingly encouraging and demanding the development of collaborative innovations.

External publication | 2024 India’s labour market challenges: Employability of young workforce from the perspective of supply and demand

This article contextualises the Indian labour market and vocational education system.

External publication | 2024 A gender-specific view on entrepreneurial recovery

Given the adversity of the COVID-19 pandemic, there remains an incomplete understanding of the gender disparities in the affectedness and recovery of micro-entrepreneurs from the crisis.

External publication | 2024 Silicon Valley entrepreneurship – Revisiting a popular dream

Silicon Valley this and Silicon Valley that have infiltrated the world. How did the image and mythology of Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship (SVE) become so popular? How did it achieve and maintain such a high level of global flattery as is demonstrated every day by attempts to copy it?

External publication | 2024 Transformative R & I policy using the example of new technologies in agriculture and social innovations

The transformation of economy and society requires far-reaching technological and social innovations. To utilise the economic opportunities of transformation and to mitigate the negative effects of structural change, a determined transformation-oriented R&I policy is needed.

External publication | 2024 Sustainability of the Mittelstand - The CSRD as opportunity or challenge?

The EU Commission's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) provides for an expansion and standardization of the content of sustainability reporting as well as an expansion of the group of companies subject to reporting requirements.