IQ selects its target companies based on the following criteria:

• existence of innovative, market-proven products and technologies
• potential for sustainable, international growth
• positive business development for at least 3 years
• experienced, highly technically qualified management teams
• companies created from research and development departments of large conglomerates
  
• companies that emerged from research and universities
• companies that developed from the conversion process of  military research

The core personnel are teams which worked together in research and product development at industry and research institutions and which have set up their own companies in order to commercialize their work.