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The institute addresses strategic, financing and other key challenges facing German small and medium-sized enterprises.
As a new platform, it combines academic excellence with entrepreneurial practice and fosters structured dialogue between academia, business, policymakers and society.
Two new professorships and a postdoctoral position will engage in research, teaching and knowledge transfer.
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Commerzbank AG have signed a funding agreement to establish the new Commerzbank Mittelstandinstitut. The institute will combine research, teaching and knowledge transfer on key topics relevant to small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). The focus will be on strategy and financing. The institute is designed as a platform for excellent research and teaching as well as continuous cross-industry dialogue.
Commerzbank’s support enables the establishment of a research professorship, a professorship of practice and a postdoctoral position.
“With the Commerzbank Mittelstandinstitut, we are creating a platform for dialogue between business and academia, where new impulses emerge through research and teaching,” explains Michael Kotzbauer, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors of Commerzbank. He adds: “Frankfurt School’s excellent research provides the ideal foundation to address pressing and practice-relevant future challenges facing the German Mittelstand. Together with the Frankfurt School, we aim to translate academic insights into practical applications and share them with our clients, thereby strengthening the Mittelstand sustainably.”
“German SMEs are characterised by a remarkable ability to adapt – a capability built over decades, often even centuries. In an environment shaped by technological disruption, geopolitical uncertainty and increasing regulatory demands, this strength is once again becoming a decisive competitive factor. Many companies are seeking guidance to evaluate strategic options, set priorities and secure solid financing for innovation and transformation. At the Commerzbank Mittelstandinstitut, we will build strong academic expertise in these areas and actively drive knowledge transfer between practice and research. We are very grateful to Commerzbank for its generous support and the trust it places in us,” says Professor Nils Stieglitz, President and CEO of Frankfurt School.
Commerzbank, as a leading bank for the German Mittelstand, brings deep expertise and close relationships with medium-sized companies. This ensures that current business topics are systematically integrated into research and teaching, for example, through guest lectures or case studies. At the same time, the institute will become an integral part of the Frankfurt School ecosystem. Collaboration with other Frankfurt School research centres, such as the Centre for Performance Management & Controlling and the Frankfurt Competence Center for German and Global Regulation, facilitates interdisciplinary exchange on issues relevant to SMEs. In addition, close ties with the Frankfurt School Entrepreneurship Centre and FUTURY will provide direct access to the start-up and entrepreneurial scene, and Frankfurt School’s global alumni network will further open up valuable perspectives and contacts.
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About Commerzbank
With its two business segments – Corporate Clients and Private and Small-Business Customers –, Commerzbank, as a full-service bank, offers a comprehensive portfolio of financial services. It is the leading bank in the Corporate Clients Business in Germany and for the German Mittelstand and a strong partner for around 24,000 corporate client groups and accounts for approximately 30% of German foreign trade. The Bank is present internationally in more than 40 countries in the corporate clients’ business – wherever its Mittelstand clients, large corporates, and institutional clients need it. In addition, Commerzbank supports its international clients with a business relationship to Germany, Austria, or Switzerland and companies operating in selected future-oriented industries. With more than €400bn assets under management, Commerzbank is also one of the leading banks for private and small-business customers in Germany. Under the brand Commerzbank, it offers a wide range of products and services with an omni-channel approach: online and mobile, via phone or video in the remote advisory centre, and personally in its around 400 branches. Under the brand comdirect, it offers all core services as a digital primary bank 24/7 and, as a performance broker, solutions for saving, investing, and securities trading. Its Polish subsidiary mBank S.A. is an innovative digital bank that serves around 5.9 million private and corporate customers, predominantly in Poland, as well as in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
About Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management is a private business school accredited by AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS. The university focuses on finance, economics and management, and offers Bachelor, Master, MBA and doctoral programmes as well as executive education courses and seminars for professionals and trainees. Frankfurt School is regularly placed among the top performers in major university rankings. For example, it ranks 31st in the latest Financial Times (FT) European Business School Ranking and is listed as the best German business school in the Times Higher Education Global University Employability Ranking. In the latest UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings Frankfurt School has also secured the top position in Germany. In the WirtschaftsWoche university ranking Frankfurt School ranks 3rd among all German universities for business administration. A central ambition of Frankfurt School is to promote entrepreneurship and startups, in particular with the its Entrepreneurship Centre and the subsidiary Futury as the startup factory for the Rhine-Main region. Advisory is another important pillar of Frankfurt School’s activities. It provides advice to businesses and organisations in emerging and developing countries, especially in the field of climate finance and insurance. In addition to the main Frankfurt campus, Frankfurt School has study centres in Hamburg, Munich and Dubai and is globally connected with around 150 partner universities. www.frankfurt-school.de
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