The German Innovation Prize

The prize has been initiated by WirtschaftsWoche, Accenture, EnBW Energy Baden-Wurttemberg and Evonik Industries in 2010. Big enterprises, medium-sized and start-up enterprises are honoured for their visionary products and ideas. The award ceremony is staged within the framework of a gala dinner and ball in Munich.

The laureates 2012 are SAP with its Software SAP HANA (category big enterprises), Häussler Innovation GmbH with its BamTech technology(category medium-sized enterprises) and NanoTemper Technologies GmbH with its microscale Thermophoresis (category start-up enterprises). 

The next tendering begins on 17 September and expires on 
16 November 2012.

Laureates 2011

• category big enterprises:Freudenberg Dichtungs- und Schwingungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG 
• category medium-sized enterprises: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG 
• category start-up enterprises: HMI – Human Machine Intelligence – GmbH

Laureates 2010

• category big enterprises: Schott AG 
• category medium-sized enterprises: DMG Dental Material Gesellschaft
• category start-up enterprises: smartfiber AG 

Jury 2012

• Roland Tichy (chairman), editor-in-chief, WirtschaftsWoche
• Prof. Dr. Gerd Binnig, Founder of Definiens AG and Noble Prize laureate in physics (1986)
• Prof. Dr. Hubertus Christ, former chairman, DVT – German Federation of Technical and Scientific organisations
• Klaus Engel, Chairman of the Management Board, Evonik Industries AG
• Prof. Dr. Matthias Kleiner, President of the DFG (German Research Foundation)
• Cornelia Rudloff-Schäfer, President of DPMA (German Patent and Trade Mark Offic) 
• Frank Riemensperger, Global Managing Director, Accenture
• Andreas Schmitz,  Spokesman of the Board, HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG and President, Bundesverband deutscher Banken e.V. (The Association of German Banks) 
• Prof. Dr. Günther Schuh, Chair of Production Engineering (WZL), RWTH Aachen University
• Hans-Peter Villis, chief executive officer of EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG
• Dr. Manfred Wittenstein, chief executive officer of WITTENSTEIN AG and President, VDMA (German Engineering Federation)