Surveys and Figures Business Development

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...

04.11.2025

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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Surveys and Figures Business Development

Startup Report 2025 - Challenges and Opportunities for Founders in Germany

04.11.2025

Overview Business Development

Bundesweite IHK-Aktionswoche Unternehmensnachfolge ab Mitte Juni

Unter der Überschrift "Fortsetzung folgt" beteiligen sich folgende IHKs mit Webinaren, Präsenzveranstaltungen oder Telefonsprechtagen an der Aktionswoche vom 15. bis zum 19. Juni 2026

Press Release Business Development

To Be Continued! – IHKs Launch Nationwide Business Succession Action Week

Numerous offerings from roundtables and a telephone hotline to webinars and Business Succession Day

15.06.2026

Kundin erhät an der Supermarktkasse einen Kassenbon

Impulse Papers Business Development

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.

Press Release Business Development

DIHK Report Business Formation 2025

The majority of founders dissatisfied with location

04.11.2025

Podcast Business Development

"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...

03.11.2025

Nachfolge - Senior und junge Frau auf Fabrikgelände

Surveys and Figures Business Development

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.

21.07.2025

Position Paper Business Development

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.

18.07.2025

Business Development

SME Committee

The DIHK SME Committee gathers diverse perspectives from SME entrepreneurs to debate critical locational concerns like eliminating bureaucracy, addressing energy needs, securing skilled labour, and ensuring competitiveness.