Top 10 Consumer Electronics Innovators

Everyone loves a list, especially (at this blog at least) one that ranks innovative companies. We publish our own annual Top 50 roster, which you can see here. Strategos, an innovation consultancy that is owned by UTEK, just released a Top 10 list of its own.

The rankings overlap a bit—Apple, LG, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony are on both—but the order is quite different. At BusinessWeek, Apple is first, followed by Google, Toyota, Microsoft, and Nintendo. Strategos puts LG in the lead, trailed immediately by Nintendo and Microsoft. As for Apple, it ranks 10th.

One obvious reason for the different lineups: The Strategos list includes only consumer electronics companies, while ours encompasses all companies. I’ve asked Strategos CEO Peter Skarzynski for an explanation of Apple’s relatively poor showing. I’ll fill you in when I hear from him.

Here’s the entire Strategos Top 10:

• LG
• Nintendo
• Microsoft
• Sony
• Hitachi
• Canon
• Sharp
• NetApp
• Audiovox
• Apple