One can illustrate this by the longtime recognition of training needs in the hotel industry and how the private sector itself has set up a large number of excellent training institutions. Similar has been the case in information technology where many private sector training institutions emerged as demand started rising.
Names I could mention include Alfred Müller-Armack, Wilhelm Röpke, Alexander Rüstow, Walter Eucken and Franz Böhm. Over time, they slotted their ideas together to form an overarching concept and helped place the social market economy on the two strong pillars that support it to this very day.