Top 100: the competition
Since 1993, compamedia has been awarding the ‘TOP 100’ seal of approval to medium-sized companies with a particular ability to innovate and outstanding innovation success. Under the scientific direction of Professor Dr Nikolaus Franke (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Top 100 evaluates the innovation management of medium-sized companies and the innovation successes which result from this. Franke and his team evaluated around 120 parameters (see the explanation of the criteria at www.top100.de/pruefkriterien). In the three size classes, a total of 262 companies (maximum of 100 per size class) received the award. The project partners are the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung and the Bundesverband mittelständische Wirtschaft (BVMW).1
1 Source: Press release about TOP 100, compamedia GmbH, dated 28.06.2019