The IfM – Small and Medium Sized Companies and Entrepreneurship (in German: Institut für Mittelstandsforschung) in Mannheim, Germany is an economic and entrepreneurship research institute and associated with the University of Mannheim.

[1] Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Michael Woywode,[2] president of the institute, IfM employs a staff of about 30 researchers.

The IfM was established in Mannheim in 1987 and is still headquartered there.

The institute is organized as an NGO with a legal form of gGmbH.

[3] The IfM Mannheim has defined four core research areas: