Institute of the German Economy
| Institute of the German Economy Cologne eV (IW) |
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| purpose | Economic Research Institute |
| Chair: | Arndt Günter Kirchhoff |
| Establishment date: | 1951 |
| Seat : | Cologne |
| Website: | www.iwkoeln.de |
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The Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln eV (IW), based in Cologne and with offices in Berlin and Brussels, is an employer-oriented economic research institute .
It is financed by business associations and companies . Supporting associations are the Federation of German Employers' Associations and the Federation of German Industry . The member associations usually belong to one of these umbrella associations. Companies and institutions in the private sector can also become members. The IW prepares analyzes and statements on questions of economic and social policy , the education and training system and social development.
The institute represents business liberal positions. The IW acts, among other things, as a scientific advisor to the Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft (a subsidiary of the IW), the Roman Herzog Institute in Munich and politics.
management
The president is Arndt Günter Kirchhoff, who is also managing partner and CEO of KIRCHHOFF Holding GmbH & Co. KG. Michael Hüther is the director , Knut Bergmann heads the capital city office .
IW network
The IW is divided into a science area, a company for commercial research and consulting, in companies with a journalistic mandate and a provider of seminars for managers.
Science and Research
The research work is carried out in the science area, which is divided into eleven fields. The science department is headed by Hans-Peter Klös and Hubertus Bardt.
Fields:
- Labor market and working world with a focus on employment and unemployment, working conditions and personnel policy
- Vocational qualification and skilled workers in the fields of training, further education, securing skilled workers and international vocational training research
- Professional participation and rehabilitation with the areas of aids, working life and disability, good practice, vocational training, research, statistics, equalization levy and international projects
- Education, immigration and innovation with the work areas of education, family policy, immigration, innovations and MINT
- Financial markets and real estate markets with the areas of housing policy and real estate economics, monetary policy and financial market economics as well as corporate finance and real estate finance
- International economic system and business cycle with the work areas domestic and international business cycle , European integration and international economic policy
- Public finance, social security, distribution with the areas of finance and tax policy, distribution, social security and Germany as a pharmaceutical location
- Structural change and competition with the work areas of industrial economics and competition as well as companies
- Collective bargaining policy and labor relations with the work areas of wage and collective bargaining policy, industrial relations, working hours and costs, and income policy
- Environment, energy, infrastructure with the work areas international climate policy, green economy, energy supply, resources as well as transport and infrastructure
- Behavioral economics and business ethics with the work areas of institutional and behavioral economics, economic and corporate ethics, future of work, civic engagement of companies and analysis of the third sector
Cross-departmental research groups
There are two cross-divisional research groups that work continuously on the respective focus:
- Economy , coordinated by Michael Grömling
- Microdata analysis , coordinated by Christina Anger and Judith Niehues
Commercial research and advice
The economic side of research and consulting is organized in IW Consult GmbH. Consult directs its offers to companies and associations, ministries and foundations. To this end, Consult works closely with the institute's research areas. Current areas include industry and regional analyzes, surveys and empirical studies as well as the organization of networks and projects. This includes the office of the classification system eCl @ ss and the PROZEUS project (processes and standards) to promote electronic business transactions.
Journalism
The journalistic and PR activities are bundled in the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Medien GmbH (IW Medien), which also includes the editorial offices of the institute. Subsidiaries of the media house are the Kölner Universitätsverlag GmbH (KUV) and the Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft GmbH (INSM), a PR initiative financed by the employers' association Gesamtmetall . IW Medien also offers public relations services for associations and companies under the motto "Communication for the Economy". IW Medien publishes, among other things, the iwd, the information service of the Institute of German Economy, with employer-related information and statistics on the economic situation.
International involvement
Until 2009 the IW was a member of the “ Network of Private Business Organizations ”, which includes institutions from Europe, America, Australia and Asia. It is a member of the Advisory Board of the magazine "Europe's World" of Friends of Europe and conducts regular exchanges on economic and socio-political issues with institutions in Austria and Switzerland as well as within the OECD . Since July 1, 2015, the IW has also had an office in Brussels.
history
Beginnings and growth
The German Industry Institute (DI) was founded on January 16, 1951. According to the resolution of the industrialists and association representatives present at the founding meeting in Oestrich (Rheingau) , the institute should undertake "a wide range of economic educational work on the services and principles of free entrepreneurship on the basis of scientifically sound knowledge". The institute started its work on May 2, 1951 in Cologne. In the course of the year, the first periodicals were founded, including the entrepreneur's letter , which from 1975 onwards was further developed as iwd . The statutes were adopted and the first board of directors was elected on September 19 in Cologne; the entry in the register of associations was made on October 16, 1951. The founding board consisted of the textile entrepreneur Carl Neumann (president of the institute until 1966), Hellmuth Krengel, Kurt Pentzlin and, as a deputy board member, Otto Seeling. In the same year, Deutsche Industrieverlag (later: Deutscher Instituts-Verlag GmbH, today: IW Medien) was founded as an in-house operation of the institute. The institute's advisory board, which is supposed to maintain constant contact with companies and business associations, began its work at its first meeting in 1954.
The importance of the institute grew continuously in the following years. In 1956 the statutes were changed so that all industrial member associations of the Federal Association of German Industry and the Federal Association of German Employers' Associations could acquire full membership in the IW. In 1961 the institute already had around 160 permanent employees, including 50 scientifically or journalistically recognized experts. By the turn of the millennium, the number of employees increased to around 330, half of whom were employed in the scientific area of the IW and half in the publishing houses. The renaming of the Deutsches Industrieinstitut in Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln and the Deutsche Industrieverlags-GmbH in Deutscher Instituts-Verlag GmbH (DIV) took place in 1973.
There has been an office in Berlin since 1990 which was originally intended to scientifically and journalistically accompany and support the market economy transformation in East Germany and is now the representative office of the institute in the federal capital.
media
From 1957 the institute held publications and media in its own library. In the first stage of expansion, the library had 28,000 volumes as well as 820 domestic and foreign periodicals and a press archive. In 1962, the establishment of the Deutsche Industriefilmzentrale (DIZ), a facility for the distribution of industrial films, which operated until 1998, was added. In 1980, the establishment of an ergonomic database (PRODIS project) began as the nucleus of the IW database area. Subsequently, and especially since the early 1990s, commissioned and project work has increasingly shaped the work and structure of the institute. The REHADAT database has been set up in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs since 1989 .
Working groups and cooperations
In 1965, with the establishment of the Federal School-Business Working Group, the IW took over the supervision of the School-Business Working Group which had existed since 1953 and which has been run since 1976 together with the Federal Association of German Employers' Associations (BDA). Founding of the non-profit institute for applied economic and social science research eV (IaF), which was active until 1997.
In 1984 a regular dialogue between church and business began. The IW is the only one of the major German economic institutes that has its own lecture on the relationship between the Church and the economy and questions of business ethics. Since 1991, the Max Weber Prize for Business Ethics, donated by the Wuppertal entrepreneur Klaus Tesch, has been awarded every two years .
Research work
In 1967 the IW became a member of the working group of German economic research institutes . In order to focus economic research more quantitatively, the working group "National Accounts and Forecasts" was formed in 1969. In 1970 he became a member of the working group of social science institutes . A research center for real estate economics follows in 2005, and in 2012 the "Academy for Integral Economics" (IW Akademie GmbH) is founded, which works together with the Institute for Economic and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne, the Schmalenbach Institute of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences and the University Bonn / Rhein-Sieg conducts research on ethical issues and offers “Executive Education for Integren Wirtschaften”. 1994 Founding of the leisure industry working group, which existed until 2004, the research center for economics / ecology and
Business start-ups
Since the 1970s, there have been an increasing number of GmbH foundations and takeovers. Edition agrippa GmbH was founded in 1974 - as a subsidiary of the Deutsches Institut-Verlag and agency for public relations at the Institute of German Business in Cologne for the purpose of taking on commissioned work for third parties. In 1988, the Advanced Training Academy of Business (FAW) was established to integrate unemployed academics into business.
A coordination office for the promotion of reintegration through qualification and training gGmbH (KFR) in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs was founded in 1988 with the aim of supporting Turkish nationals willing to return. The company has been run as a coordination office for professional mobility and integration abroad gGmbH (KMI) since 2000.
Since 1995 the majority of the FAW has been owned by the vocational training centers of the Bavarian economy (bfz). In 1995 the IW acquired the AKTIV-informedia verlag-gmbh, in which the business newspaper AKTIV appears, with its subsidiary Als en Alpha-Omega and Kölner Universitätsverlag. The company was merged in 1996 with the Deutsche Instituts-Verlag. The Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Consult GmbH was founded in 1998 as a company for commercial research and consulting services of the institute. This was followed in 1999 by berolino.pr gmbh, which has been operating as the INSM Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft GmbH since 2007, with its headquarters in Berlin as a subsidiary of the Deutsches Institut-Verlag for the implementation of the Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft (INSM). RheinSiteMedia GmbH was also founded in 2001 as a subsidiary of the German Institute Publishing House for multimedia services, which became independent in 2007 as part of a management buy-out . The JUNIOR (Young Entrepreneurs Initiate, Organize, Realize) project, founded in 1994 , in which pupils at general schools are introduced to entrepreneurial activities in one-year model phases, was outsourced to the Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Junior gGmbH in 2008 together with other projects.
literature
- Fifteen years of the German Industrial Institute , Cologne: Deutsche Industrie-Verlags GmbH, 1966
- 25 years of the Institute for the German Economy , Cologne: Deutscher Instituts-Verlag, 1976, ISBN 3-88054-286-4
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.iwkoeln.de/institut/haben.html
- ↑ https://www.iwkoeln.de/institut/haben.html
- ↑ https://www.iwkoeln.de/institut/direktion.html
- ↑ List of the organizations of the Network of Private Business Organizations ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 45 ″ N , 6 ° 57 ′ 46.9 ″ E