Innovative Companies invite

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InnovativeCompaniesinvite
Benchmarking Innovation Excellence as a tool
forInnovation Policy Leiden 11-12 October 2004
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Innovation experience!

• The F.A.Z.-Institut
• The F.A.Z.-Institut für Management-, Markt- und
• Medieninformationen GmbH offers a wide spectrum
  of
• 400 Congresses, Events and Seminars
• Innovation and Knowledge Transfer
• Publications (Books, Magazins, Newsletter)
• Analyses, Market Survey, Research
• Consulting and Services

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Innovation experience!

• The division Innovation Projects
• F.A.Z .-Institut's Innovation Projects division
  offers
• knowledge transfer, an exchange of experiences
  and
• consulting for professionals in the area of
  innovation.
• In the context of five projects, innovators
  exchange
• know-how with other innovators. The best practice
• transfer take place from expert for expert - from
  the
• practice in the practice.

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Innovation erleben!

• The philosophy (I)
• Holistic Innovation-Culture

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• The philosophy (II)
• Learning from each other
• Exchanging experience
• Making new contacts

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• The philosophy (III)
• across all enterprise size
• across all sectors
• across all regions
• across all subjects

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Innovation experience!

• TOP
• Technology-oriented visiting and
• information programme TOP
• T ransfer of knowledge
• O ptimizing processes
• P ractice experience

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• The organiser
• TOP was initiated by the
• Federal Ministery for
• economics and Labor
• F.A.Z.-Institut für Management-,
• Markt- und Medieninformationen GmbH

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• The partners
• TOP is actively supported by the
• german associations
• Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI)
• Deutscher Industrie und Handelstag (DIHK)
• Rationalisierungs- und Innovationszentrum
  derDeutschen Wirtschaft (RKW)
• Zentralverband des Deutschen Handwerks (ZDH)
• about 300 multiplicators

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• The Idea
• TOP gives you the opportunity to visit
  leading-edge companies and discuss the
  successfull implementation of innovations.

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• The target
• On more than 230 one-day visits, you will learn
  about the advantages, risks and chances of
  innovative processes, successfull strategies and
  modern technologies.

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• The topics
• CAD/CAE/CAM
• corporate strategy
• e-Solutions
• Knowledge Management
• learning organization
• logistics people issues
• marketing / sales
• people in focus

• Process optimization
• production engineering
• productivity concepts
• quality management
• team work
• TPM/CIP/Kaizen
• a.o.

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• The 3 column of TOP-Day
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Practice-
• Demonstration
• 3. Diskussion

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• The host companies
• Currently, over 100 best-practice companies
  across Germany open their doors.
• The host companies are small (1/3), middle (1/3)
  and major enterprises (1/3) across all sectors.
• More than 250 host companies in the years
  1992-2004.

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• The host companies
• Please, have a look
• in the TOP-Katalogue,
• page 12 ...

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• The host companies (valuation)

Durchschnittsnote 1,3 / 1,25
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• The host companies (valuation)

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The host companies (motivation) To learn from
one another regarding organization and other
issues, to open the doors of your plants to
others, but also to get to know new
technologies provides great opportunities for
every business. (M. Hinz, Head of Personnel
GKN Löbro GmbH)
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• The participants
• 2004
• 2.500 participants in 230 one-day visits.
• 1992-2004.
• About 24.000 participants in more
• than 2.300 one-day visits.

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• Participants valuation (I)

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Participants valuation (II)
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• Participants valuation (III)

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• Participants valuation (IV)

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• Participants valuation (V)

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• Participants valuation (VI)

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• Sustainable benefits for all participants
• Nearly 90 percent of all participants
• rate the events good or very good.
• For 75 percent of participants, visiting
• the event has led to different degrees of
• change in their own companies.
• Evaluation of the TOP project by the Fraunhofer
  Institute
• for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, 2003

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• The module
• Advisory board
• Award of honour and newcomer-Award
• Books
• Extranet
• Fairs (Hannover-Messe, Personal)
• F.A.Z.-Supplement
• Host-meeting (regional and national)
• Newsletter
• Study Mission
• TOPintensiv

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• Steps for akquisition hosts
• (1) Application
• (2) Analysis
• (3) Jury (internal)
• (3) Questionnaire
• (4) Auditing talks on site
• (5) Jury (internal and external)

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