Credit Institution for Reconstruction: significantly fewer companies founding in Germany

The situation in the labour market is so good in Germany that there is hardly anyone to start up companies. The remaining founders are doing much more research on this.

Credit Institution for Reconstruction: significantly fewer companies founding in Germany

The number of business start-ups in Germany has declined significantly. 2017 if only 557,000 founders had made ir own, credit Institution for Reconstruction (KfW) shared. That was a minus of 115,000 founders or 14 percent compared to year 2016. "The very good economy actually invited for reasons. In particular, founding activity in ancillary acquisition continued to slump strongly, "says KfW chief economist Dr. Jörg Zeuner.

The positive development of labour market has developed a kind of effect. While it is typical of a very good labour market situation, number of founders is declining because more people find FesteAnstellungen. Zeuner Wiesaber pointed out that re had been a significant increase in denGründungen compared with previous year 2017.

"The record situation in labour market seems to be beyond usual context of unemployment and growth with its founding activities." To find a dependent employment also for added merit is currently as simple as never. "And those who already have a dependent employment are not able to become independent in sidelines because of high workload."

More foundations in field of research and innovation

The number of co-acquisition founders even decreased by 101,000 or 24 percent to 323,000; The full-income founders, on or hand, only 14,000 or 6 percent to 234,000 people. These are central results of a preliminary evaluation of KFW founding Monitor, annual representative survey of founding events in Germany.

Because start-up of companies includes all kinds of businesses from restaurants to startups, KfW also differentiates itself according to economically important foundations. There has been a clear increase in technology-based new companies. The number of founders carrying out research and development work with goal of technological innovation rose by 31 percent to 76,000.

Date Of Update: 22 February 2018, 12:03
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