Analysis of the Refugee Startup Ecosystem

The aim of this thesis is to investigate and identify the present status of Refugee Startup Ecosystem in Germany, despite the substantial amount of critical work that has been produced on the whole startup ecosystem in the last decades. Moreover, it also aims at making recommendations for Future Development and Research in the progression of the integration process within the society. In the first part, we introduce the topic: the influence, and as well as the output of the current situation of integrating the refugees in Germany with a short empirical survey and a set of interviews with several entrepreneurs with the support of Hochschule Anhalt. The Analysis is in based on a database, which we have developed, and where we gather information about 184 subjects of study, and there we classified according to our ecosystem Framework and a business model canvas tool. Our thesis shows the current impact of the refugee situation in German social startups using a Case Study Methodology with mixed methods with a pragmatic approach