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AWARDED - SAMCON is one of the TOP innovators 2024

Our company was awarded the TOP 100 seal for its innovative strength

Newly crowned innovation champion: SAMCON GmbH has received the TOP 100 seal 2024.

Only particularly innovative medium-sized companies are honored. Science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar will personally congratulate Steffen Seibert on this success at the award ceremony on June 28th in Weimar.

On behalf of compamedia , the organizer of the competition, the innovation researcher Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Franke from the Vienna University of Economics and Business and his team evaluated the innovative strength of all participants based on more than 100 criteria from five categories: innovation-promoting top management, innovation climate, innovative processes and organization, external orientation/open innovation and innovation success. "Are companies able to create new products, new services, new processes and new business models? And are these achievements just coincidences or the result of a structured and targeted approach? We examine these questions at TOP 100," says Nikolaus Franke, explaining his approach to the review. What is also important is how and whether new products and product improvements were able to establish themselves on the market.

SAMCON prevails in the scientific selection process and is therefore one of the top innovators. "We are very proud of this award and think we deserve it. Since we are working on a niche product away from the mass market and our customers' applications are very individual and special, we are constantly working on the implementation of new, advanced solutions in order to solve our customers' problems in the best possible way," says Steffen Seibert, Managing Director and Head of Development .

On June 28th we will meet in the " congress" . centrum weimarhalle" all top innovators from the class of 2024 at the award ceremony as part of the German SME Summit. Ranga Yogeshwar will personally congratulate you on your success in TOP 100 .

TOP 100: the competition Since 1993, compamedia has been awarding the TOP 100 seal for special innovative strength and above-average innovation success to medium-sized companies. Since 2002, the scientific management has been in the hands of Prof. Dr. Nicholas Franke. Franke is the founder and director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. With 26 research awards and over 200 publications, he is one of the leading innovation researchers internationally. TOP 100's mentor is science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar. Project partners are the Fraunhofer Society for the Promotion of Applied Research and the medium-sized business association BVMW. The magazine managers magazin and impulse accompany the company comparison as media partners, ZEIT for entrepreneurs is a cooperation partner.