Starting today, companies can register for the German Innovation Awards 2019, the competition of the German Design Council, which recognises innovations with an effect: no matter if it's a detailed solution, a process or a product. Given that innovations, in their capacity as a differentiating competitive factor, are an integral part of today’s markets, in this second year of the German Innovation Awards, we have decided to make their scope international.

The winners of the first edition of the German Innovation Awards were honoured in a festive gala held at the Technology Museum in Berlin yesterday evening, 6 June 2018. More than 250 guests from the worlds of business, industry, politics and the media attended the distinguished ceremony.


It’s the first prize to honour impact — the first to select winners based on added value and small details and to make way for completely new product solutions. The German Design Council’s German Innovation Award is an exclusive forum for one of the most important drivers in business success and serves as a valuable instrument for companies to communicate their capacity for innovation to the industry, to experts and to the media. The criteria for winning are just as demanding as they are simple:...