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Innovation Champion 2024

noax Technologies awarded as TOP 100 Innovator

In 2024, we successfully won the TOP 100 competition for innovation management, the only one of its kind in Germany. This makes us one of the most innovative SMEs in Germany! noax Technologies impressed with its outstanding innovative strength in this year’s round of the TOP 100 competition and was awarded the TOP 100 seal 2024.

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TOP100 Innovator

noax scores with future viability as a success factor

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Award ceremony

at the German SME Summit

The Top Innovators 2024 were honored on June 28, 2024 in Weimar at the big TOP 100 awards ceremony as part of the 9th German SME Summit. Science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar personally congratulated noax on its great success at this unique event. Around 1000 top entrepreneurs and guests traveled to the event to attend the presentation of the Top 100 Innovation Award. In addition to the festive award ceremony, the get-together with representatives of the top companies focused on exchanging ideas and best practices.

Wow! Unpack and marvel

our TOP 100 award

Join us as we unpack our latest award! It’s finally here: our trophy as TOP 100 Innovator 2024! As the winner of the only nationwide competition for innovation management TOP 100, we not only hold the title “Innovation Champion”, but we can also look forward to receiving a seal, a certificate and a high-quality trophy. Take a look at our unboxing video.

We promote innovation in the team

Every innovation starts with an idea. Employees from all areas are in demand. Thinking outside the box also provides fresh input. We discuss current challenges changes and trends openly and constructively. We attach great importance to exchange, communication and active participation – ideas and suggestions for improvement are regularly collected and evaluated within the team. Our open and positive corporate culture makes it possible for everyone to contribute their opinions and ideas.

How do you become a TOP 100 Innovator?

Becoming a TOP 100 Innovator is not easy – in this most important innovation competition for SMEs, the innovative strength of all participants is assessed in a scientific selection process based on more than 100 criteria from five categories. In the 31st round of the competition, companies from all sectors across Germany once again competed for the prestigious award. The top questions include

Is the company in a position to create new products and new services?
Are new processes and new business models being developed?
Are these services the result of a structured and targeted approach?

What exactly does the TOP 100 award?

For over 30 years, particularly innovative SMEs have been competing in this independent annual competition. The strengths and innovative capabilities of the participants are evaluated in five categories:

Climate of innovation
Innovative processes and organization
Innovation-promoting top management
Innovation success
External orientation / open innovation

Excellent! We are TOP Innovator 2024

noax convinces with real innovation power! This is confirmed by our distinction with the TOP 100 Award. Top 100 is the most important innovation competition for medium-sized companies in Germany. Every year, an independent, scientific jury examines innovation-promoting top management and climate, innovative processes and organization, external orientation/open innovation and innovation success. We were able to impress the jury with our outstanding innovative strength and dynamism in product development! We use our award-winning strengths to tackle new ideas and projects.

What exactly is the TOP 100 innovation 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. Nikolaus Franke, founder and director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. The mentor of TOP 100 is the science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar. Project partners are the Fraunhofer Society for the Promotion of Applied Research and the BVMW association for small and medium-sized enterprises. The magazines manager magazine and impulse contribute to the company comparison as media partners, Time for Entrepreneurs is a cooperation partner. To ensure that all participants have the same opportunities, the seal is awarded in three size categories: up to 50, 51 to 200 and more than 200 employees.

noax demonstrates world-class innovative strength

With our forward-thinking, our customer focus and our progressive actions, we are leading the way for the industry. The combination of various measures makes up our innovation strategy. noax CEO Verena Schechner is proud of the prestigious award as confirmation of the company’s forward-looking and sustainable orientation: “With our robust IT hardware solutions and our innovative in-house development, we have been a reliable partner to manufacturing companies for more than 25 years. In order to keep abreast of technological trends, we coordinate closely with suppliers and customers and constantly put our products to the test.”

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