Jan Evers

Jan Evers

Jan Evers (born May 14, 1968 in Bergisch Gladbach ) is a German author .

Life

After graduating from high school, Jan Evers studied business administration at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics , which he left in 1993 with a degree in business administration . Through further studies from 1993 to 1994 at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle in England, he earned the title of Master of Business Administration (MBA). In the following years until 2000 Jan Evers was employed in a research institute. In 2002 he earned his doctorate with a thesis at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt on loans for small businesses. Efficient banking support systems . In 2001 Jans Evers founded the consulting company Evers & Jung in Hamburg together with his partner Martin Jung .

Protection of investment decisions

At the Institute for Financial Services in Hamburg, Evers was already involved in studies and publications on social investment as well as damage analyzes in the event of failed corporate financing and misdirected financial investments in the 1990s . The clients here are mostly consumer advice centers or foundations, including the Volkswagen Foundation in Hanover.

On behalf of Stern magazine , Jan Evers and colleagues carried out tests of the quality of advice on business start-ups, investments and, finally, old-age provision between 1999 and 2002. The 2003 star series Das 1x1 des Geldes was awarded the Helmut Schmidt Journalism Prize for critical consumer protection journalism . A canon of financial education financed by Commerzbank AG and drawn up by Jan Evers, Martin Jung and Marco Habschick differentiated for the first time what the customer needs to know and what they don't need to know in order to receive good advice. With the corporate aid run by Jan Evers and his company based on the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, a data pool for research into crises and crisis prevention was created with over 4,000 crisis companies advised. On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection , the study Requirements for financial intermediaries - more quality, better decisions - was carried out between 2007 and 2008 . Jan Evers, Marco Habschick and Ulrich Krüger from the University of Bremen were responsible .

Start-up policy and promotion of SMEs

The modernization of start-up and SME funding is the focus of Evers' work. The opportunities for modernization through new target groups, new funding methods and digitization are already part of the dissertation in 2002. Evers conceptualises and publishes for federal and state governments, the associated ministries, state (including KfW ) and state development institutes, EU institutions, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the International Labor Organization (ILO).

Evers' topics are located at the interfaces between the protagonists of the German and EU start-up events. The fact that expanded and new European priorities are changing the German funding landscape applies in particular to development banks, whose chances of change are often topics of public publications. In 2004, a study by Jan Evers and Martin Jung served as the basis for the content of the spin-off of the Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) from the Bankgesellschaft Berlin . In 2012, another Evers & Jung study for the Hamburg Senate provided the template for the founding concept of the Hamburg Investment and Development Bank (IFB).

On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economics , the 2015 study, carried out together with trend researcher Peter Wippermann , describes the future of start -up funding - new trends and innovative instruments, the new image of start-ups as well as methods of crowd financing , digital consulting services and private-sector incubators. Since 2015, concepts and studies have been created for universities and research institutions in order to raise the potential of the knowledge advantage in successful start-ups. For the Hamburg Economic Authority , Jan Evers and Marco Habschick and Michael Unterberg designed a digital platform for knowledge founders in 2016, which was announced in the coalition agreement of the state government in 2015 and went online in 2019 under the name "be your pilot". The largest Hamburg universities and DESY have joined forces to promote the start-ups of scientists more efficiently via a common infrastructure.

For the first time, this platform connects regional players via a joint support system to create a clear online and offline offer.

In March 2018, Evers, as managing director of the company BusinessPilot, founded specifically for this purpose, launched the start-up platform together with the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) and KfW . On the website www.gruenderplattform.de, users have access to various digital planning tools for working on ideas, business models and business plans as well as for the formal start-up process, with which they can digitally prepare their start-up. At the same time, nationwide over 500 mainly public actors in start-up advice and start-up financing are involved. The founders can get free advice or make a financing request directly via the platform.

Publications

• Jan Evers: Retirement provision. Advantageous models for all incomes and ages. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1997. ISBN 978-3-499-60224-5
• Jan Evers, Rüdiger Falken: Insurance. Your personal insurance program against risks , Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1998. ISBN 978-3-499-60458-4
• Jan Evers, Udo Reifner, Diana Siebert: Community reinvestment: an American specialty for the German banking and savings bank market? , Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1998. ISBN 978-3-7890-5368-9
• Jan Evers, Udo Reifner: Credit and New Entrepreneurs , Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1998. ISBN 978-3-7890-5766-3
• Jan Evers, Udo Reifner: The social responsibility of credit institutions in the EU , Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1998. ISBN 978-3-7890-5587-4
• Jan Evers, Ulrich Krüger, Udo Reifner: Quality of advice in financial services , Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2000. ISBN 978-3-7890-6825-6
• Jan Evers, Marco Habschick: Micro finance designed for start ups as an exit out of unemployment, RWI, Essen 2001. ISBN 978-3-928739-73-3
• Jan Evers: Loans for small businesses . Efficient banking support systems , Bankakademie Verlag, Frankfurt 2002. ISBN 978-3-933165-54-1
• Jan Evers, Martin Jung, Marco Habschick: Financing on a small scale: Practical handbook for the development of innovative SME funding instruments , Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2003. ISBN 978-3-8334-0234-0

Web links

• Jan Evers' website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marco Habschick, Martin Jung, Jan Evers: Canon of general financial education / Commerzbank ideas laboratory - a memorandum. Commerzbank AG, accessed on October 10, 2016 . 
2. ↑ BUSINESS AID. In: COMPANY AID. Retrieved October 11, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Marco Habschick, Jan Evers: Requirements for financial intermediaries - more quality, better decisions. Retrieved October 4, 2016 . 
4. ^ Establishment of the Hamburg Investment and Development Bank | Discussion and concept paper. Retrieved October 10, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Dr. Mirko Bendig, Dr. Jan Evers, Sarah Knirsch: The future of start-up funding - new trends and innovative instruments. Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), accessed on October 11, 2016 . 
6. ^ SPD, regional organization Hamburg and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, regional association Hamburg: Together we can create modern Hamburg. Coalition agreement on cooperation in the 21st legislative period of the Hamburg citizenship. P. 19 and , accessed October 11, 2016 . 
7. ↑ beyourpilot - research and founding in Hamburg. Retrieved November 28, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Torben Müller: Amazon for Entrepreneurs. brand eins Medien AG, accessed on November 11, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Federal Ministry of Economics and KfW support founders with a new digital platform. In: www.bmwi.de. Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy / KfW, December 19, 2017, accessed on November 11, 2019 .