Innovation Award of the German Economy

Under the auspices of the Federal Minister for Economics and Labour, every year  significant company innovations are awarded with the "Innovation Award of the German Economy ".
EnBW has been endowing this prize for several years in the category of  "Start-up Companies" – companies, which are less than 5 years old.

With this commitment we are contributing to the creation of a general atmosphere which promotes performance, supports existing skills and furthers the drive of start-up companies. The aim is to continuously win over the markets with new products and to strengthen Germany as a business location.

Restructuring recognised and appreciated as process innovation for the first time.

With the project “Group Restructuring as Process Innovation using the Example of EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG”, EnBW reached the final round in 2005 of the “Innovation Prize of the German Economy” in the large company category.

The jury said that the reason they awarded us the prize was that the company had impressively demonstrated with its group restructuring as process innovation how a large company, which used to have “monopolistic structures”, can be transformed into a highly competitive top company which has strong revenues and be revitalised, while avoiding operational redundancies and significantly increasing occupational health and safety for its employees.