Global Entrepreneurship Monitor : business start-ups in worldwide comparison. Country report Germany 2012

Abstract

"The 13th German Country Report for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) describes and explains the start-up activities in Germany in the year 2012. All in all at the time of the survey, 5.3% of adult Germans were actively engaged in setting up their own business (nascent start-up entrepreneurs) or were the owner and manager of an enterprise that was not older than 3 1/2 years (start-up entrepreneurs of new enterprises). Gender was among the socio-demographic characteristics which had a strong influence on the tendency to set up a business. Start-up entrepreneurs who become self-employed in order to promote a business idea (4.1% of all 18- to 64-year-olds), are more numerous also in Germany than those who start-up a business because they do not have an alternative source of employment (1.2%). In international comparison, start-up entrepreneurs in Germany would like to employ a relatively large amount of persons in the future (at least ten persons five years after the start-up date) and relatively often increase the current number of employees by at least 50 per cent within that period of time. Moreover, part of the start-up climate has developed in a positive manner: in 2012 close on 35 of those asked saw good chances of starting up a business (Rank 7). On the other hand, however, only 37% of the 1B 64-year-olds who were asked believed that they had the sufficient skills and experiences to implement their start-up idea (Rank 13). The start-up experts who were asked rated physical infrastructure, the public support programme, and the protection of intellectual property very highly in 2012. The weaknesses of Germany as a location for start-up enterprises lie in the preparation for entrepreneurial self-employment both within and outside schools as well as in the supply of labour for new enterprises." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku)

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Sternberg, R., Vorderwülbecke, A. & Brixy, U. (2013): Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Unternehmensgründungen im weltweiten Vergleich. Länderbericht Deutschland 2012. (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Länderbericht Deutschland 13), Hannover, 32 p.