AI has made its way into businesses in Baden-Württemberg, but is not yet widely used.
AI already plays a visible role in businesses in Baden-Württemberg: 31 percent of businesses in the state use generative and/or non-generative AI. Generative AI accounts for the bulk of this usage: 28 percent of businesses use generative AI, placing Baden-Württemberg above the Germany-wide average of 24 percent. Non-generative AI is significantly less common, at 7 percent.
The IAW recently published these and other interesting findings on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in companies in Baden-Württemberg in the IAW Brief Report 1/2026. The analysis, based on the IAB Enterprise Panel 2025, was commissioned by the Baden-Württemberg Regional Directorate of the Federal Employment Agency.
News from the IAW: IAW News 2/2026 online.
When emergency personnel commute: Workforce mobility as a challenge for civil protection
Industrial policy support programs: linking economic transformation with social conditions and cushioning the impact
11th Bundesbank-IAW Lecture with Prof. Dr. mult. Dr. h.c. Ulrike Malmendier on May 7, 2026, at the University of Tübingen
New research project: Young adults' attitudes toward the welfare state
According to the latest nowcast by the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW) and the University of Hohenheim, Baden-Württemberg’s gross domestic product is set to rise by 0.4 per cent in the second quarter of 2026 compared with the previous quarter, adjusted for seasonal and working-day effects. Positive growth is also forecast for the following two quarters, although this is expected to slow towards the end of the year.
Ninth joint workshop organised by the ‘Women and Work’ contact points and the equal opportunities officers for the labour market. Stuttgart, Haus der Wirtschaft.
Keynote presentation:
Women’s employment in Baden-Württemberg – The role of work-life balance measures. A study based on the IAB Baden-Württemberg Firm Panel.
What support do businesses need from employment agencies, job centres and contact points?
Themed discussion in a World Café format:
Work-life balance in small businesses – what are the obstacles, and what helps?
3rd IAW Workshop on Growth, Prosperity and Democracy in Stuttgart.
This workshop took place on 12 June and focused in particular on the following questions:
Is it necessary to rebalance the relationship between the state, civil society and private-sector actors in order to achieve welfare state objectives even during a period of zero growth?
How can the emergence of communicative power and its institutional translation into administrative power be secured under the changed conditions?
How can the changed conditions for action be translated into an informed public discourse with the potential for rational policy decisions?
The results of this workshop will be published in 2027 as the third volume in the series ‘Growth. Prosperity. Democracy’.
May 7, 2026: 11th Bundesbank-IAW Lecture at the University of Tübingen.
The Deutsche Bundesbank’s headquarters in Baden-Württemberg and the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW) invite you to the “Bundesbank-IAW Lecture” on Thursday, May 7, 2026, at 4:15 p.m. in the Neue Aula at the University of Tübingen.
We are very pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. mult. Dr. h.c. Ulrike Malmendier from the University of California, Berkeley. Her lecture is titled:
Human Finance – Incorporating Insights from the Life Sciences into Finance, with an Application to German Capital Markets and Pension Reform.
Please refer to the invitation for further information. Registration to attend the lecture is not required.
How should Europe position itself to address the increasingly pressing challenges posed by global economic upheavals, geopolitical tensions, and potential crises in the international financial system? Prof. Dr. Christoph Trebesch, Vice President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and a world-renowned expert in the field of geoeconomics, addressed this question at this year’s lecture event hosted by the IAW and the headquarters of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Baden-Württemberg on March 26, 2026.
The event also featured the presentation of the 2026 Norbert Kloten Prize for the best theses in the field of applied economic research at the Universities of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, and Tübingen. This year’s prizes went to Judith Lehner from the University of Tübingen and Ricardo Acevedo Arias from the University of Hohenheim.
