“This diversity is what makes the Thuringia Innovation Award so special and demonstrates the technological capabilities of our state,” said Thuringia’s Minister of Economic Affairs, Wolfgang Tiefensee, at the award ceremony. The award is presented annually as part of a competition organized by the Thuringian Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Thuringian Foundation for Technology, Innovation and Research (STIFT), TÜV Thuringia e.V., and the Ernst Abbe Foundation. This year, 50 applications were submitted and evaluated by an 18-member expert jury. Jury criteria included the degree of innovation, sustainability, functionality, and entrepreneurial success. A prerequisite for the award is that the competition entries were predominantly developed or manufactured in Thuringia and are already on the market or will be launched there shortly. (hw)
The prizes in the various categories went to:
Category “TRADITION & FUTURE”
migohead Flora Mirzoyan & Roman Golovkov GbR - for innovative ceramic earmolds for standard hearing systems
Category “INDUSTRY & MATERIALS”
Maximator Hydrogen GmbH - for highly efficient hydrogen compression with Automatic Seal Exchange (ASX) - MAX Compression 2.0
Category “DIGITAL & MEDIA”
Funkwerk Systems GmbH - for the 5G Cab Radio "CRLT.50"
dSign Systems GmbH - for TaskCards
Category “LIGHT & LIFE”
Jabil Optics Germany GmbH - for the SWIR 3D camera for indoor and outdoor applications
SPECIAL PRIZE FOR YOUNG COMPANIES
Xsight Optics GmbH - for Xsight Medical
ERNST ABBE PRIZE FOR INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Sven Kiontke, Managing Director of asphericon GmbH from Jena
AUDIENCE AWARD
Q-SOFT GmbH - for the EFA telematics app
