TOP 100 title defense

In this year’s TOP 100 innovation competition, a total of 300 medium-sized companies in three size categories received the coveted TOP 100 2021 seal. On the occasion of the TOP 100 final on 26.11.2021, all award-winning SMEs came together for the online conference with the competition mentor and science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar.

The corona crisis continues to be a major business challenge, Ranga Yogeshwar made clear. “How do companies react when things they take for granted suddenly break away? When the environment changes radically?” he asked. “True innovators are constantly changing, reinventing themselves and coming up with surprising solutions,” said Yogeshwar in praise of the achievements of the TOP 100 companies. “During the Corona crisis, for example, they identified opportunities and came up with innovative processes in record time,” he said.

Especially in times of increasing importance of digital business models, opening up the innovation process is also important in production companies. With its open innovation principle, PROXIA accompanies companies on their way to digitalization. PROXIA CEO Julia Klingspor even speaks of an innovation boost that can result from close collaboration with customers: “With our partnership-based approach to projects, we help them optimize daily business and production processes.”

As an internationally active MES software solution provider, PROXIA accompanies companies on their way to digitalization according to the open innovation principle. Creativity, speed and specialist knowledge are what count when it comes to innovation success. With its innovative MES software and a wealth of process and production know-how, PROXIA actively contributes to stimulating ideas, technologies and solutions in companies for faster innovation success – and, above all, to putting them into practice more quickly in the company’s own production. “I am very pleased that we have already been awarded the TOP100 Innovation Prize for the second time,” summarizes Julia Klingspor.

For the full PROXIA TOP 100 portrait and video message from Ranga Yogeshwar, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHb5Pi0Z4YY

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. Nikolaus Franke. Franke is founder and director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. The mentor of TOP 100 is science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar. Project partners are the Fraunhofer Society for the Promotion of Applied Research and the BVMW. As media partners, manager magazin and impulse accompany the company comparison. More information at www.top100.de.