German Private Institute

for Economic Development

Membership

Join a network built to strengthen Germany's economic future.

The Institute connects companies, expert partners and economic development stakeholders in a professional framework for orientation, exchange and practical action.

Membership gives direct access to relevant future-facing topics. For organizations that want to shape transformation rather than simply observe it.

Context

Economic transformation requires more than isolated measures.

Companies face digitization, AI, skills shortages, cost pressure and new competition at the same time. The decisive task is turning knowledge into structures that can act.

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Orientation is often missing where technological and economic decisions converge.

02

Practical business knowledge often reaches expert partners and economic development institutions too late.

03

Effective economic development emerges when perspectives are brought together in a structured way.

The Institute

A nationwide platform for knowledge, connection and economic agency.

Connect

Companies, expert partners, associations, chambers and economic development organizations meet in practical formats.

Clarify

Technological, economic and organizational developments are translated into usable business context.

Transfer

Practical experience becomes impulses, dialogues and cooperation opportunities.

Member Value

Members gain orientation, visibility and access to the right partners.

Understand change earlier

Access to impulses and dialogues on AI, skills, innovation, transformation and competitiveness.

Expand your network with intent

Exchange with organizations solving similar challenges or contributing relevant perspectives from practice and research.

Make practical experience visible

Bring your organization's needs, insights and solutions into expert formats and economic development discussions.

Formats

Recognizable formats turn exchange into practical relevance.

Expert dialogues

Working groups

Company roundtables

Practical impulses

Pilot contexts

Publication formats

Events

Partner conversations

Audiences

Membership is built for organizations that want to help shape change.

Companies and SMEs

For organizations addressing digitization, AI, skills, innovation and transformation in practice.

Research and universities

For institutions that want to connect insight more closely to business reality and transfer contexts.

Associations and chambers

For institutions that bundle needs, strengthen dialogue and make practical knowledge more actionable.

Economic development and public actors

For organizations that think about economic development structurally and across regions.

Getting Started

The path to membership begins with one focused conversation.

1. Clarify priorities

Which topic, sector or cooperation question matters most to your organization?

2. Match the right formats

We identify which dialogues, working groups or partner connections create the greatest value.

3. Contribute visibly

You bring perspective into the network and gain access to relevant nationwide exchange.

German Private Institute

for Economic Development

Next Step

Bring your perspective into the Institute network.

Membership creates access to knowledge, contacts and formats that translate economic future questions into practical agency.

kontakt@diwf-institut.de Send us a short note about the topic, sector or cooperation question that matters to your organization.

For companies, research partners, associations, chambers and economic development institutions.

Become a member