Business development

Framework conditions for start-ups, growth and succession

Business development means making it easier to start a business, enabling growth and securing succession. The DIHK represents the perspective of the business community and demonstrates how reducing bureaucracy, improving access to finance and providing reliable framework conditions can strengthen SMEs and support companies at every stage of their development.

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Porträtfoto Hans-Werner Lindgens
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Interview Unternehmensentwicklung

"The uncertainties are increasing"

Hans-Werner Lindgens was Chairman of the DIHK SME Committee until the end of March 2025. He looks to the future with concern and is certain that the economy will change permanently. What is needed, he says, is a new course setting, according to the passionate sailor.

Stapel von Zahlungsbelegen
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Positionierung Unternehmensentwicklung

Withdraw EU Plans to Combat Late Payments

Against the backdrop of the European agenda for reducing bureaucracy, the German business community has once again opposed the Commission's proposal for a regulation to combat late payments in commercial transactions.

Date of publication 18.07.2025
Pressemitteilung Unternehmensentwicklung

DIHK Report Business Formation 2025

The majority of founders dissatisfied with location

Date of publication 04.11.2025
Teambesprechung für Gründerreport
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Umfragen und Zahlen Unternehmensentwicklung

Startup Report 2025 - Challenges and Opportunities for Founders in Germany

How does the entrepreneurial landscape look across Germany? What do founders really need, and which areas require urgent reform? The new DIHK Report offers insights from around 200,000 contacts in the IHK startup services and 618 responses from a nationwide survey on entrepreneurship. The...

Date of publication 04.11.2025
Nachfolge - Senior und junge Frau auf Fabrikgelände
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Umfragen und Zahlen Unternehmensentwicklung

Corporate Succession Report 2025

Germany's SMEs are urgently looking for successors – but the gap between businesses ready to hand over and suitable acquirers is widening. The DIHK Report 2025 explains why the risk of closures is increasing and where action needs to be taken now.

Date of publication 21.07.2025
Kundin erhät an der Supermarktkasse einen Kassenbon
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Impulse Unternehmensentwicklung

DIHK Proposals for Reducing Bureaucracy in Start-Ups

From residency regulations to packaging requirements: various German regulations create bureaucratic hurdles that make it significantly more difficult—and, from an industrial perspective, unnecessarily so—for new entrepreneurs to embark on self-employment. There are easier ways.

Firmenmeeting
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Unternehmensentwicklung

SME Committee

The DIHK SME Committee brings together the perspectives of entrepreneurs from across the SME sector and discusses key location-related issues such as reducing bureaucracy, energy, skilled labour, and competitiveness.

Podcast Unternehmensentwicklung

"WirtschaftsWissen", Folge 40 – EPdU 2025: Was Europas Unternehmen jetzt von Brüssel erwarten

Beim Europäischen Parlament der Unternehmen (EPdU) diskutieren 700 Unternehmerinnen und Unternehmer aus ganz Europa über die Handelspolitik der EU, über Wachstum, Nachhaltigkeit und den Binnenmarkt. In der 40. Folge von "WirtschaftsWissen" erklären Eurochambres-Vizepräsidentin Sibylle Thierer...

Date of publication 03.11.2025