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Companies are an important pillar of our economy because they create jobs, prosperity and growth. It is the task of politics to support companies in adapting to a changing environment - for example, to promote research and development. 

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The structure of the German and international economy is constantly changing. Companies are challenged to adapt to new realities brought about by digitization, for example. But they are also driving innovation and thus actively shaping change. Politics can support companies in this task by setting the framework conditions favorably. This includes, for example, adjusting the rules for competition, reducing bureaucracy and always maintaining a balance between established companies, such as traditional SMEs, and startups that enrich Germany as a business location with new business models.

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Data utilisation potentials for companies
IW-Policy Paper No. 8 21. September 2023

Nothing to do with data?: Data utilisation potentials for companies

Barbara Engels

If companies want to survive on the market in the long term, they cannot avoid the topic of data.

IW

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How young people in Germany perceive the Creator Economy
IW-Report No. 46 20. September 2023

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Barbara Engels

The Creator Economy is booming: more and more companies use content creators to promote their products, and more and more people want to become content creators themselves, i.e. create their own digital content, make it available to a growing audience on digital platforms and monetise it.

IW

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Industrial policy at the turn of the times
IW-Policy Paper No. 7 17. September 2023

Industrial policy at the turn of the times

Michael Hüther / Hubertus Bardt / Cornelius Bähr / Jürgen Matthes / Klaus-Heiner Röhl / Christian Rusche / Thilo Schaefer

The current debate on industrial policy vacillates between the extreme positions of an orthodoxy of rejecting state action and a naive belief in the state's ability to control structural change.

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Is the derisking beginning?
IW-Report No. 43 15. September 2023

Is the derisking beginning?

Jürgen Matthes / Thomas Puls

An analysis of German foreign trade with China and import dependencies on China in the first half of 2023 shows: Compared to the first half of 2022, German exports to China fell by over 8 percent and German imports from China by almost 17 percent.

IW

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German Industry's Options for a Secure Supply of Raw Materials
IW-Trends No. 3 31. August 2023

German Industry's Options for a Secure Supply of Raw Materials

Cornelius Bähr / Hubertus Bardt / Adriana Neligan

In recent years German industry has seen a rise in the risks attached to its procurement of raw materials.

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