EGORA requires a businessplan, preferably in English, for evaluating investments. The plans must fulfill the following prerequisites:

• The new technology must allow clear advantages to customers.
• The company must have a competent and motivated management team which will drive the business idea.
• The enterprise will operate in business markets and will strive for a leading position.
• The business model must be scalable.
• The intellectual property of the company must be long-term and defendable.
• The business model must be based on technologies and applications supplementing the EGORA portfolio with synergistic effects.
• The start-ups should seek active support from EGORA.
• The capital invested must be exclusively used for further building the enterprise.