German Institute for Business Administration

German Institute for Business Administration
German Institute for Business Administration
Category:	continuing Professional Education
Carrier:	none (legally independent company )
Facility location:	Frankfurt am Main
Subjects:	Idea management / innovation management

The German Institute for Business Management GmbH (dib), based in Frankfurt am Main, was a German training institute from 1943 to 2017, which in its final years focused on idea management and innovation management.

activity

The aim of the dib was originally the further qualification of employees in the business administration spectrum.

The dib forum idea management was an amalgamation of several hundred companies as an interest representation and network platform. In addition, the dib statistics on idea management for Germany, Austria and Switzerland were recorded, on the basis of which the best submitters were honored every year at an annual conference. The aim was to promote ideas and innovation management, to support exchange across national borders and to make it better known to the public. The specialist journal Ideas and Innovation Management from Erich Schmidt Verlag contributed to this, and was published by the institute. It has been published by two former dib employees since autumn 2017.

history

The dib was founded on March 29, 1943 by the Frankfurt a. M. founded together with the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University and eight companies from the greater Frankfurt area as the 'Institute for Industrial Economics'. A short time later, the name was changed to the German Institute for Business Administration.

In 2003 the institute was incorporated into the Dekra Group and transformed into the legal form of a GmbH .

In 2017 the institute completely stopped its activities.