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Whether they are running a start-up, family business or a corporation, entrepreneurs are shaping the world of tomorrow. In the Entrepreneurship section, you will learn how entrepreneurship is shaping businesses and society alike, through new business models, products and innovations.

Entrepreneurs are helping to actively shape the world of tomorrow. Through innovations, new business models and products, they develop solutions for the big challenges facing us all in the future. That is what makes entrepreneurship absolutely central to social change. Entrepreneurship comes in many different forms, and entrepreneurial action is just as diverse: young start-up founders or enterprising serial entrepreneurs may behave very differently from a seasoned head of a family business that has been around for generations. Our Insights articles aim to shed light on different facets of entrepreneurship.

Businessplans - an essential tool for entrepreneurs.

One of the first tasks when starting a business is writing a business plan. There's a common perception that business plans are only useful for fundraising. But there is another essential purpose: to organize your thoughts and clarify your plan. For future business owners, a plan "helps...

Without them, smartphones wouldn't really be smart. Apps, the small programs that offer a seemingly infinite variety of games, entertainment, information and productivity tools, are at the heart of today's connected life. After reading about Worm, Shazam and ICQ in the first part of...

Without them, smartphones wouldn’t really be smart. Apps, the small programs that offer a seemingly infinite variety of games, entertainment, information and productivity tools, are at the heart of today's connected life. Since almost three-quarters of the global population aged 10 and older...

The future of food : From fields to bioreactors?

The healthiest tomatoes never see the light of day. They grow in containers, warehouses and factories on the outskirts of cities. The plants flourish under LED lights whose color and intensity are fine tuned to their needs. The combination of the temperature, humidity and an irrigation system...

Realität oder Fiktion: HBO-Serie Succession und die Realität in Familienunternehmen

Why Succession is so enthrallin “You bust in here, guns in hand. And now you find they’ve turned to f*cking sausages,” thunders media mogul Logan Roy. His avaricious offspring have just attempted a hostile takeover of Waystar Royco, the fictional conglomerate he owns in the HBO show Succession.

Robots in the operating room: How deep tech is revolutionizing medicine

The groundbreaking step started with a small incision near the belly button. At the beginning of April 2021, Professor Lutz Mirow, Chief Physician at Chemnitz Hospital in Germany, sat in front of a control console and reached for his scalpel with a robotic hand. For the experienced surgeon...

Successful business succession: From founder to mentor

Professor Zellweger, what fascinates you about family-owned companies? They are a type of company that stands in contrast to what they normally teach you when you study business administration: These are companies that do not have purely financial goals, that have a long-term focus. They have...

Why a family constitution, charter, code or pact is particularly important for entrepreneurial families.

Many large dynasties have a family constitution that sets out important guidelines on how certain family-related matters and values are handled - the Princely Family of Liechtenstein is one of them. Benjamin Vetterli knows just how important this is for high-net-worth families. But according...

Signs of the drama that is about to unfold begin to appear almost 30 minutes beforehand. But no one takes any notice, because the monitoring devices don’t sound the alarm until it’s too late. Suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, the patient experiences a circulatory collapse, and the...

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How to write a strong business plan

Insatiable app-etite: big business on small screens

Insatiable app-etite: early pioneers of digitization

The future of food: From fields to bioreactors?

Does the hit series Succession offer real lessons on how to run a dynasty?

Robots in the operating room: How deep tech is revolutionizing medicine

Successful business succession: From founder to mentor

Family constitutions - the glue that holds families together?

How deep tech start-ups are helping to heal patients using algorithms

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How to write a strong business plan

Insatiable app-etite: big business on small screens

Insatiable app-etite: early pioneers of digitization

The future of food: From fields to bioreactors?

Does the hit series Succession offer real lessons on how to run a dynasty?

Robots in the operating room: How deep tech is revolutionizing medicine

Successful business succession: From founder to mentor

Family constitutions - the glue that holds families together?

How deep tech start-ups are helping to heal patients using algorithms

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