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Crisis resilience in Mittelstand enterprises | 2024 Women as founders and entrepreneurs - causes of their persistent underrepresentation
Recently, the topic of family formation and entrepreneurial activity has gained public attention under the heading of maternity protection for the self-employed. The discussion of the largely absent social protection for self-employed women during pregnancy and maternity leave periods has revealed a glaring lack of fundamental knowledge.
The future of Mittelstand enterprises | 2024 Speeding up approval procedures
Many small and medium-sized businesses experience a dual transformation that involves significant investments in modernization and expansion. However, realizing these changes often requires going through lengthy and complex planning and approval processes, despite the promise of legal certainty.
The future of Mittelstand enterprises | 2024 Development of a foresight process for "SMEs"
The current multiple and, in some cases, unexpectedly occurring crises pose significant challenges for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and SME policies. The task of applied SME research is to identify new challenges for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) at an early stage, enabling policymakers to make proactive decisions in support of the SME sector.
Framework conditions supporting SMEs | 2024 Practice Checks for Medium-Sized Businesses
The federal government aims to relieve businesses by reducing unnecessary bureaucracy. The current coalition agreement (p. 26) outlines the intention to "develop a systematic procedure for reviewing the bureaucratic effort of laws and regulations, involving stakeholders regularly (practice check)."
Framework conditions supporting SMEs | 2024 Regulatory framework conditions for a future-oriented SME policy
The Climate Protection Act stipulates that Germany must achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045. This goal is to be reached in an economically efficient manner, which is in general best achieved through a forward-looking realignment of the relevant framework conditions.
Cross-sectional projects
Cross-sectional projects Cross-sectional projects include studies that address a specific topic over several years and are relevant to all existing programme areas.
External publication | 2024 Access to digital finance: Equity crowdfunding across countries and platforms
Financing entrepreneurship spurs innovation and economic growth. Digital financial platforms that crowdfund equity for entrepreneurs have emerged globally, yet they remain poorly understood.
Facts and figures | 2024 The underrepresentation of women in entrepreneurship
Although the number of self-employed women has increased more than men in recent decades, there is still a clear under-representation of women in entrepreneurship.
Policy Brief "Entrepreneurship in Focus" | 2024 Capturing entrepreneurial activities among minors
The authors explain in the policy brief what minors’ entrepreneurial activities characterise. Minors mainly use self-employment to try things out, implement ideas on the market, and acquire skills that prepare them for their later working lives.
Third party research
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Third party research | 2024 Prevention and intervention to protect against discrimination in working life
In 2006, the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) came into effect. That meant the creation of the legal framework for largely uniform protection against discrimination in Germany.
Third party research | 2024 The Promotion of Sustainable Financing by the EU - Effects on the German Mittelstand
Economic policy is currently adjusting the economic framework conditions to counteract climate change. At the European level, this is regulated by the so-called European Green Deal.
Third party research | 2024 Bureaucratic costs of companies in the mechanical and plant engineering sector
Bureaucratic requirements for companies are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, laws and regulations mean companies act according to general and predictable rules and there is a fair competition base.
Third party research | 2024 Unternehmensnachfolge im Baugewerbe
Es gibt keine Schätzung oder Befragung, die verlässlich Auskunft darüber gibt, wie viele der Unternehmen im Baugewerbe in den kommenden Jahren vor der Nachfolgeregelung stehen oder was die Besonderheiten der Nachfolgeregelungen im Baugewerbe sind.
Third party research | 2024 Determination of the number of employees with income above the contribution assessment ceiling for pension insurance based on income tax data
Ziel der Studie ist es, die Anzahl der Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer zu ermitteln, die Bruttoentgelte oberhalb der Beitragsbemessungsgrenze der GRV erzielen, und zwar differenziert nach Einkunftsklassen, Versichertenkreis Ost und West sowie ausgewählten soziodemografischen Merkmalen.
Third party research | 2024 Quantification of the founders of the year 2018
Die Bundesregierung plant für Selbstständige, die bisher von keinem Alterssicherungssystem erfasst werden, eine Altersvorsorgepflicht einzuführen, wenn sie 2 Jahre selbstständig sind und ihre Einkünfte aus der Selbstständigkeit über der Geringfügigkeitsgrenze einer abhängigen Beschäftigung liegen.
Third party research | 2024 Hybrid self-employment - development, structure and characteristics
The study examines the hybrid forms of employment in Germany which means that individuals at working age are both dependent and self-employed.
External publication | 2023 A multi-voiced account of family entrepreneuring research: expanding the agenda of family entrepreneurship
This conceptual, multi-voiced paper aims to collectively explore and theorize family entrepreneuring, which is a research stream dedicated to investigating the emergence and becoming of entrepreneurial phenomena in business families and family firms.
IfM-Background-Paper | 2023 Technology-open and broad-based R&I support - Assessement from the perspective of economic theory and economic policy
Innovations are important for the growth of an economy and their insitutional support is an integral element of innovation policy in Germany.