Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft

The Institute of the German Economy in Cologne eV (IW ), headquartered in Cologne and Berlin office is an employer-friendly advocacy, ie Commercializes ideas think tank.

It is funded by organizations and private sector companies. Sponsoring associations are the Confederation of German Employers' Associations and the Federation of German Industry. The member associations are usually in one of these umbrella organizations. Also, entities and institutions of the private sector to become members. On a scientific basis, it develops analysis and opinions on all matters of economic and social policy, education and training systems, including social development.

The institute represents liberal positions. The mission of the Institute, which sees itself as a " leading private economic research institute in Germany ", it is according to his autobiography, " to strengthen the understanding of economic and social processes in politics and the public and to improve ." The IW acts among other things as a scientific consultant to the Initiative New Social Market Economy, the Roman Herzog Institute in Munich and politics.

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Acting President of the Institute is Günter Arndt Kirchhoff, Managing Partner and CEO of KIRCHHOFF Holding GmbH & Co. KG. In Bureau and chairman of the Institute BDA, BDI, the Association of the Automotive Industry of the German Chemical Industry Association, the metal employers and representatives are eV, represented by companies in the industry and the mining industry. IW - director is Michael Huether, the capital bureau shall Knut Bergmann.

IW composite

The IW is divided into scientific work areas, a company for commercial research and advisory services, in company with journalistic job and a provider of seminars for managers.

Science and Research

The institute's research work is done in two areas of science, the science education education policy and labor market policy and the academic sector II economic policy and social policy. The fields of science is affiliated a statistical archive.

Education policy and labor market policy

The science education is headed by Hans -Peter Klös. He currently covers the following areas of expertise:

• Institutional economics will be working on institutional and behavioral economics, Economic and Corporate Ethics, Future of Work, Civic engagement of companies and analysis of the Third Sector
• Human Capital and Innovation will be working on the economics of innovation, STEM subjects, efficiency of the education system, demography, social policy and immigration
• Vocational and academic education will be working on Vocational Education, Academic Education and Economic Education
• Vocational training will be working on securing skilled labor, education and training
• Labor and personnel economics with the work areas of labor market research, personnel policy and participation.
• Professional participation - REHADAT with the workspaces tools, working life and disability, vocational training, research, statistics, countervailing charge and International Projects

Economic and social policies

The scientific department II is led by Rolf Kroker. He currently covers the following areas of expertise:

• Structural transformation, distribution, wage determination will be working on growth and structural change, economy, enterprise development and regional policy, labor costs, working hours, income distribution, wage policy and wage policy, labor disputes
• International Economic Order will be working on foreign trade, European integration, monetary policy and financial markets as well as international economic policy
• General government and Social Security will be working on financial and tax policy, micro-data analysis, redistributive policies, social security and pharmaceutical location Germany
• Environment, energy, resources will be working on mitigation and adaptation, energy and resources As well as traffic
• Real Estate Economics will be working on real estate markets and real estate finance, Energy renovation and demographic change, as well as simulation area trade

Cross-cutting research groups

In a cross there are three research groups working continuously to the respective center of gravity:

• Economy, coordinated by Michael Grömling
• Market and the state, coordinated by Dominik Enste

Commercial Research and Consulting

The economic side of research and consulting is organized in the IW Consult GmbH. The Consult makes the scientific know -how of the Institute for practice only and directed to their offers to companies and organizations, ministries and foundations. For this, the Consult works closely with the research areas of the Institute. Among the current areas of expertise include industry and regional analyzes, surveys and empirical studies as well as the organization of networks and projects. This includes, among other things, the office of the classification system eCl @ ss and the project PROZEUS (processes and standards ) for the promotion of electronic commerce.

Journalism

The journalistic and PR activities of the Institute are in the Institute of the German Economy in Cologne Medien GmbH (IW media) gathered, which includes the editors of the Institute. Subsidiaries of the media company are the University of Cologne Verlag GmbH ( PSR ) and the Initiative for a New Social Market Economy GmbH (INSM ), an employer-paid Gesamtmetall PR initiative. The IW media offers under the motto "Communication for Business" at the same time services to the public work of associations and companies. The IW media are, among others, the weekly iwd, Information Service of the Institute of the German economy, with employer- information and statistics on the economic situation out.

International integration

The IW was until 2009 a member of the "Network of Private Business Organizations ", composed of institutions from Europe, America, Australia and Asia. It is a member of the Advisory Board of the journal " Europe's World ," the Friends of Europe and lead regular discussions on economic and socio- political issues with institutions in Austria and Switzerland as well as in the OECD.

History

The IW was founded on 16 January 1951 as Germany Industry Institute ( DI). By resolution of at the founding meeting in Oestrich (Rheingau ) present industrialists and association representatives should make the Institute a " broad-based economic education about benefits and principles of free enterprise economy on the basis of scientifically impeccable knowledge ". The Institute commenced on 2 May 1951 in Cologne on his work. During the course of the year first periodicals were established, including the business letter, which will be further developed as iwd editorial published in 1975. Adoption of the Constitution and election of the first Board took place on 19 September in Cologne, the entry in the Register was made on 16 October 1951. The founding board consisted of the textile entrepreneur Carl Neumann ( President of the Institute until 1966 ), Hellmuth Krengel, Kurt Pentzlin and a deputy board member Otto Seeling. (IW media later: German Institute -Verlag GmbH, today ) as an intrinsic operation of the Institute was still in the same year, the German industrial publishing. The Advisory Board of the Institute, which is to ausfrechterhalten the constant connection to the companies and organizations of industry, took its first meeting in 1954 on its activities.

The importance of the institute grew steadily in the following years. In 1956 the statute was amended to the effect that all industrial affiliates of the Federation of German Industry ( BDI ) and the Confederation of German Employers' Associations ( BDA) were able to acquire full membership in the IW. In 1961, the institute had already around 160 permanent employees, including 50 scientific or journalistic recognized experts. Until the turn of the millennium, the number of employees grows to around 330, which are each occupied half in the scientific field of the IW and the publishers. The renaming of the German Industry Institute in the Institute of German Economy in Cologne and the German industrial publishing GmbH, German Institute -Verlag GmbH (DIV ) was performed in 1973.

Chronology of other stations in the development of IW: