Reporting ‘Founders week Germany 2010’ Munich, November 11, 2010. 56 percent of Germans have a favorable view of independence. This is the result of a representative study of Amway GmbH. Filed under: Jeff Sessions. At the start of the week of the founder, the Europe-wide Active direct selling companies examined attitudes towards self-employment in eleven European countries. Most likely the respondents imagined a company without employees. 60 percent of Germans in favour of a solo self-employment. Thus Germany is in third place in the European comparison”, so Michael Meissner, Vice President Corporate Affairs Europe of Amway GmbH.
For every fourth German independence is a professional alternative 24 percent of Germans dependent can step into an independence imagine. The potential of establishment of is higher than the actual number of self-employed persons in Germany so many times. Germany lacks founders”, concludes Andy Goldstein, Managing Director of the entrepreneurship Center of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, which has accompanied the study as scientific partner. There is an enormous potential of the founder; It must be exhausted only better”, so Goldstein next. Simple forms of self-employment in Europe particularly demand solo self-employment and self-employment in the sideline are the most sought after patterns of self-employment in the eleven European countries studied.
In Germany two-thirds of respondents favor respectively. “The lower the entry barriers, a company is more attractive”, explains Michael Meissner and calls continue: independence must be above all one: easy to implement “. Lacking the Germans not ideas, it’s money and courage as barriers to self-employment are called especially missing starting capital (71%), fear of failure (58 percent) and lack of economic knowledge (52 percent). A missing business idea calls, however, only a third of Germans (37 per cent) as an obstacle. Main incentives are additional earning opportunities (52%), independence (49 percent) and self-realization (42 percent) for a self-employment. “This study is part of the initiative’s future independence”. More information and results see. In the period from August to October 2010 12.510 women were studying design and questioned men in eleven European countries on the topic of self-employment. The study results are representative of the Wohnbevolkerungen of the respective countries (Denmark, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Austria, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine).