On behalf of Compamedia, organizer of the TOP 100 innovation competition, innovation researcher Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Franke and his team examined the innovative abilities of ENDEGS, based on around 120 criteria in five categories: Support for innovation by top management, innovation climate, innovation processes and organization, external orientation/open innovation and innovation success.
At the core, the question is whether innovations are the result of planned processes or come about by chance, in other words, whether innovation performance is repeatable, and whether, and how, the resulting solutions are successful on the market (for more on the judging criteria, see www.top100.de/ pruefkriterien). Due to the current situation, there was also a special category for company response to the corona crisis.