Entrepreneurs turn innovative ideas into reality, thus promoting progress, growth and competitiveness. Around 15% of the entrepreneurs introduced an innovation onto the regional, German, or world markets in 2017. One start-up in five is “digital”, i.e. digitalisation or the use of digital technologies plays a crucial role in the realisation of the business concept.

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