Excellent inventive talent at profichip Profichip
Only creative enterprises with vision and sense for innovations are among the 100 most innovative medium-sized companies. In 2011 profichip was one of them and received the seal of quality „Top 100“ from Lothar Späth in the Baltic sea spa town Warnemünde.
„Detached from the daily development“, is the motto of profichip GmbH. The company from Herzogenaurach provides its complete know how for the development and distribution of integrated circuits for automation engineering. All 15 employees are highly specialised experts in this area. They have clearly defined targets in the daily business, but can explore better ways to find a solution on their own. One day a week they deal exclusively with new own ideas. “For our innovation power it is extremely necessary for our employees to leave beaten tracks. This free spaces create synergy effects, which affect other projects positively”, says CEO Wolfgang Seel. Besides this the company cooperates very closely with universities. So new approaches which are still far away from realisation, can be tested scientifically and the suitability for the industry can be examined. For Seel this cooperation with science is indispensable.
The University of Economics Vienna examined the innovation behaviour of 272 medium-sized companies in Germany for several months. The best 100, including profichip bear the seal of quality for one year. “Creative ideas and a fresh thinking are not only to increase sales. We are passionate about this subject and want to make a difference. We are proud of this award and we want to show that it is worth pulling together”, says Seel.
The 100 medium-sized companies which bear the seal of quality generated a total turnover of 11.2 billion EUR in the past year. 769 national and 1,865 international patents were newly applied for in 2010. 48 of 100 companies are nationally the number one in their field, 19 of them are even global leaders. 88 out of 100 companies awarded have grown faster over the past three years than the industry average – and that on average around 16%.
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25 July 2011
