Because the keynote speaker, Wolfgang Bosbach identified the significance of inventiveness coupled with entrepreneurial braveness for the native economic system. “We solely have one uncooked materials in Germany: training,” stated Bosbach, referring to the idea for innovations. However developing with one thing nice is one factor – implementing it and turning it right into a sustainable enterprise mannequin is one other.
The winner was TH Rosenheim
The three winners of this yr’s Founder’s Prize managed to do each: develop an concept after which efficiently place it in the marketplace. The three award-winning firms deservedly accepted the prizes donated by the entrepreneurial couple Marina and Toni Meggle, endowed with a complete of fifty,000 euros: first place went to the software program firm “InnFactory” from Rosenheim, second place went to the tea producer “TaTeeTaTa” from Inzell and third place was the day bar “Bauchgfui” from Berchtesgaden.
The choice was made by a twelve-member jury led by Christine Völzow, managing director and head of the vbw financial coverage division. Prof. Heinrich Köster, President of the TH Rosenheim, was additionally among the many jurors. He will need to have been significantly happy that “InnFactory,” a software program firm that emerged from his college, received.
The three winners can now be part of the illustrious checklist of earlier award winners since 2012 such because the brewery “Camba Bavaria” from Seeon, “Bora Lüftungstechnik” from Raubling and the final winner, the furnishings producer “Oberhaizinger” from Julbach, who received the prize in 2019 – The award has since been paused resulting from Corona.
As a brief movie confirmed, “Oberhaizinger” has developed splendidly in these 4 years – new prospects had been acquired and the corporate grew to become even higher recognized – actually additionally because of the Founder’s Prize, as managing director Martin Unterstaller stated. »And the worth additionally provides you a great deal of self-confidence.«
The second and third place winners from 2019, the “Chiemgauer Genussmanufaktur” from Feichten and the “Rotmilan GmbH” from Rosenheim, reported comparable issues.
An actual “winners community” has been created since 2012
The in depth success tales of the earlier winners present: The Founder’s Prize is a sustainable factor that’s not simply concerning the prize cash, but additionally concerning the “community” that has been created through the years. Josef Willkommer, managing director of the Kolbermoor “TechDivision”, is now even a former prize winner on the jury. True to the motto of the Founder’s Prize “Advancing concepts collectively.”
Additional info at meggle-gruenderpreis.com. Johannes Geigenberger
