Many business owners are currently facing serious challenges: excessive bureaucracy, rising energy costs, a shortage of skilled workers and, last but not least, major geopolitical uncertainties. The Economic Council therefore organized an event in Konstanz to discuss what specific recommendations for action are available, in particular also for the German Mittelstand (SMEs). Prof. Dr.-Ing. Guido H. Baltes, Scientific Director of…

In numerous discussions with local entrepreneurs, the same issues kept cropping up: alongside bureaucracy and energy costs, the acute shortage of skilled workers has, in many cases, become a matter of survival. Ulrich Dietz therefore organized an event on this topic with the Economic Council. Essentially, there are two fundamental approaches to tackling this problem: Whilst in particular industrial companies…