Categories

Our awards celebrate outstanding innovators in the following categories:

BIOSCIENCE
Includes pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and agriculture
SPONSORED BY: ASTELLAS

COMPUTING AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Includes hardware, software, security, telecommunications
SPONSORED BY: HUAWEI

CONSUMER PRODUCTS 
May include the product or design in support of a product

ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Includes green technologies, utilities and transportation

NO BOUNDARIES 
Technology-based products or services that don't fit neatly into any of the above categories (this includes materials science, nanotechnology and other emerging fields, e.g. blue-violet laser)

PROCESS AND SERVICE INNOVATION
Enabling compounds, products, technologies or methodologies which underpin product discovery, design, or manufacturing, as well as fulfillment processes in business and education

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INNOVATION
Novel technologies and business models that improve everyday lives (e.g. microcredit)

THE CORPORATE AWARD
For corporate use of innovation: Nominations submitted by the judging panel only.