1158 Results
IfM-Materialien | 2018 Regional start-up environments using the example of selected hotspots
In the context of the study, start-up environments are examined on the basis of five selected start-up hotspots. The study showed that universities offer a variety of advantages for the regions as start-up locations, especially when they cooperate closely with regional players in the start-up process.
Facts and figures | 2018 Business start-ups by foreign citizens: Update 2018
Foreigners have played a significant role in shaping the business start-up process in both Germany and North Rhine-Westphalia between 2007 and 2016. Foreign founders have played a particularly important role in the commercial sector.
External publication | 2018 [Übersetzen nach: English] Entrepreneurial resourcefulness in unstable institutional contexts: The example of European Union borderlands
This paper aims to understand entrepreneurial resourceful behavior in contexts characterized by difficult economic conditions and institutional changes.
Facts and figures | 2018 The use of bankruptcy reorganisation channels by small and medium-sized enterprises - the example of self-administration
With the introduction of the ESUG, Germany's insolvency law was reformed in 2012. The ESUG opens up new reorganization paths, e.g. the self-administered protective shield procedure before insolvency and self-administration during the opening proceedings.
External publication | 2018 Women entrepreneurs´ financing revisited: taking stock and looking forward
Do financing agencies discriminate against women entrepreneurs, or is this simply a perception? Does the persistent underrepresentation of women in the financing industry, especially in venture capital, play a role?
Policy Brief "Entrepreneurship in Focus" | 2018 Business model innovations in family businesses
Innovative business models are just as important for the success of a company as new products and technologies.
Facts and figures | 2018 Company successions in Germany 2018 to 2022
Due to a lack of official statistics, the IfM Bonn has been estimating the number of companies in Germany that are about to be handed over since the mid-1990s. The present estimate for the period 2018 to 2022 concludes that about 150,000 companies with about 2.4 million employees are about to be handed over.
IfM-Materialien | 2018 Reform of the Points of Single Contact (PSC) - suggestions from European good practice examples
The starting point of the study is Germany's lagging behind other EU countries in implementing the point of single contact. Based on guideline-based expert interviews, the study presents the more digitized EA systems in Austria and Denmark and derives recommendations for action for Germany.
IfM-Materialien | 2018 Innovation activities of non-researching medium-sized companies
This study is dedicated to non-researching, medium-sized innovators. These mostly small companies are primarily found in the service sector. The aim was to determine which alternative strategies non-researching innovators implement to generate innovations and to what extent they can replace R&D.
Working Papers | 2018 Times are a Changin'? The Emergence of New Firms and Rank Persistence
Young firms are known to grow at a faster rate than incumbents. With administrative firm data from Germany, we show that the higher growth rates indeed translate into upward mobility within the firm size distribution.firms, whi
Denkpapiere | 2018 Social entrepreneurship
In this paper we systematize the central characteristics of social entrepreneurship and make clear that the term is already conceptually classified.
External publication | 2017 The largest family-owned companies in Germany, key figures update 2017
As part of the study series "The largest family businesses in Germany", the IfM Bonn analyzed the balance sheet and P&L data of family businesses with annual sales of 50 million euros or more in the fall of 2017.
IfM-Materialien | 2017 Internationalization in the business-related service sector - forms, obstacles and support needs of German SMEs
Services are ascribed trade-restrictive characteristics such as a high need for explanation, low standardizability and interaction between provider and recipient. Similarly, the limited resources in SMEs suggest a low level of trade activity in the service sector.
Working Papers | 2017 Mind the Gap: Institutional and Individual Antecedents of Entrepreneurial Trajectories in the Academic Context
This study analyses institutional, job-related, and individual antecedents of entrepreneurial activities from a longitudinal perspective.
Policy Brief "Entrepreneurship in Focus" | 2017 Heterogeneity of SME financing in Europe
The middle class and its financing is a topic of high relevance. However, there is little empirical evidence on this topic at European level.
External publication | 2017 Data security and missing standards in medium-sized businesses
This book contribution examines the question of whether data and legal security as well as the lack of standards and norms represent significant challenges for the realization of Industry 4.0 for manufacturing companies in Germany.
IfM-Materialien | 2017 New approaches for SME policy - Impulses from international good practice examples
This study identifies innovative approaches to SME policy on the basis of four international examples of good practice.
External publication | 2017 SME and Entrepreneurship Policy in Canada
The report provides a comprehensive assessment of the structure and performance of SME and entrepreneurship activity in Canada, the business environment and framework conditions for SMEs and entrepreneurship, the strategic framework and delivery arrangements for policy, national SME and entrepreneurship programmes and the local dimension of the policy.
External publication | 2017 Business Takeover or New Venture? (Why) Do Women Prefer New Ventures?
This paper analyzes the role of (nascent) entrepreneurs’ sex in choosing the mode of business entry. Using a unique data set and estimating logit regressions we show that nascent entrepreneurs’ sex indeed affects their intended and actually chosen mode of entry.
IfM-Materialien | 2017 Family businesses of migrants
In the present study, we examine the special features of immigrant-run family businesses, to which every tenth family business in Germany belongs. Although they are on average smaller and younger than non-migrant family businesses, migrant family businesses make a valuable contribution to the national economy.