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External publication | 2021 Entrepreneur - economics
Entrepreneurial activity already existed in the 3rd millennium BC. This is attested to by cuneiform inscriptions in contemporary Iraq.
External publication | 2021 The SME policy after Corona - for a sustainable future
Covid 19, digitalisation, Green Deal – the Mittelstand will face great challenges in the coming years in addition to their sector and size-specific tasks.
External publication | 2021 Moving Contexts Onto New Roads – Clues From Other Disciplines
This paper responds to Welter’s (2011) call to pay more attention to the diversity of entrepreneurship in theorizing contexts by examining how places come to be understood as entrepreneurial.
IfM-Materialien | 2021 Fintechs: Opportunities for SME Financing?
The study examines the potential of fintechs for SME financing. Fintechs often bring together capital supply and demand more efficiently than banks.
Mittelstand - Themes
Mittelstand - Themes The IfM Bonn presents quantitative data on small and medium-sized enterprises (SME definition of the IfM Bonn) and large companies on the following pages. The data is…
Policy Brief "Entrepreneurship in Focus" | 2021 Entrepreneurship and knowledge as drivers of regional development in East Germany
East German regions, which had a relatively high density of private enterprises and a high qualification level of the workforce at the end of the GDR era, coped relatively well within the abrupt transition to a market economy more than 30 years ago.
External publication | 2021 A replication study on growth paths of young firms: Evidence from German administrative data
This replication study contributes to the lively debate about firm-specific growth paths of new firms. Utilizing rich German administrative panel data (i.e., 895,459 young firms that submitted a turnover tax preregistration form between 2001 and 2011), the study empirically revisits new firms’ growth paths as documented in the JBV Insights paper of Coad et al. (2015).
Working Papers | 2021 Female and male entrepreneurs in Germany: How did the coronavirus pandemic affect their businesses?
Restrictions in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic have affected and continue to affect the operations of entrepreneurs. A wide range of support measures were designed to mitigate their consequences. This paper traces the economic development in the various sectors and provides an overview of the support measures.
Policy Brief "Entrepreneurship in Focus" | 2021 Succession as closure risk
Closures in the course of successions are a rare phenomenon. The analysis of businesses that were ready to be handed over and whose owners planned a handover in the period from 2012 to 2016 but closed down their business instead proves this.
IfM-Materialien | 2021 Founding success of academics in German univiersities - a process oriented perspective
Im Rahmen dieser Studie werden die Einflüsse auf den Gründungserfolg von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern an deutschen Hochschulen über einen Zeitraum von sieben Jahren analysiert.
External publication | 2021 Inventions and their commercial exploitation in academic institutions: Analysing determinants among academic
Institutions of higher education are considered to be an important source of innovation and thereby a key driver of economic growth and development. Consequently, efforts are made to facilitate technology transfer from universities into the market.
External publication | 2021 Different strokes for different folks: The job satisfaction of the selfemployed and the intersection of gender and migration background
Migrant enterprises comprise about 10 per cent of all enterprises in Germany and are therefore a crucial part of the German economy and its entrepreneurial ecosystems.
External publication | 2021 Entrepreneurship Education: Definition - Theory - Perspectives
This anthology captures the current discussion about entrepreneurship education in the context of economic education in Germany.
External publication | 2021 Conceptual and disciplinary genesis of entrepreneurship education
Entrepreneurship education is a diverse and interdisciplinary field of teaching and research.