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Policy Brief "Entrepreneurship in Focus" | 2025 Psychological costs as a key factor in the bureaucratic burden on businesses

Compliance costs measured in terms of time and financial resources significantly underestimate the bureaucratic burden on companies.

External publication | 2025 Interference in children’s affairs An exploratory study about the role of self-employed parents

The literature on entrepreneurship suggests that children of self-employed parents are more likely to become self-employed themselves due to parental role models and socialisation.

Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy Bureaucracy per se fulfills important economic functions: It helps to ensure legal certainty, planning security and equal treatment. However, despite several bureaucracy relief laws,…

NRW

In 2023, approx. 717 160 enterprises classified as small and medium-sized enterprises in North Rhine-Westphalia, accounting for 99.1% of the total number of enterprises with turnover from goods and…

NRW

 Total1SMEs1SME-Share1 Number of enterprises       Enterprises according to business register 20232 723 538 717 160 99.1% Enterprises liable to VAT 20233 633 326 629 349…