School grades for the traffic light's start-up policy: one third fail
Started as a "progress coalition," but became a nuisance for many young companies: According to a Bitkom survey, the Ampel's start-up policy isn't well received
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According to a survey by the industry association Bitkom, German start-ups are rating the start-up policy of the traffic light parties increasingly poorly. In terms of school grades, it is now only an even four, compared to an average of 3.7 in the previous year.
According to Bitkom, 172 tech start-ups were surveyed. Only around one percent of them would give the federal government the same "very good" rating as in the previous year, while eight percent would give it a "good", which represents a slight increase. For a third, however, the traffic light would now be in acute danger of being moved: 23% gave it a five and now 10% a six. According to Bitkom, only four percent of the companies surveyed gave the worst grade last year.
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Daring less bureaucracy
According to the Bitkom statement, reducing bureaucracy is at the top of start-ups' wish list. Over two thirds of young companies (70 percent) considered this to be important. For 55%, exemption from legal requirements and bureaucracy within the first two years after founding the company was particularly relevant. More than half (56%) would also like start-ups to have easier access to public contracts, while 44% would like companies to be founded more easily and quickly. According to Bitkom President Ralf Wintergerst, the German government could tackle all of this without additional funds in the federal budget. It would only need the common political will to do so.
So far, however, the coalition government has only implemented some of its start-up funding plans, as a recent Bitkom survey has shown: Of the measures described in the coalition agreement and the digital strategy, 22 out of 58 have been realized, 32 are being implemented and four have not yet been started.
(axk)
