Categories

Award categories

Our awards celebrate outstanding innovators in the following categories:

Bioscience: includes pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and agriculture

Business processes: enabling compounds, products, technologies or methodologies which underpin product discovery, design, or manufacturing, as well as fulfillment processes

Energy and the environment: includes green technologies, utilities and transportation

Social and economic innovation: novel technologies and business models that improve everyday lives (e.g. microcredit)

Computing and telecommunications: includes hardware, software, security, telecommunications

Consumer products and services: may include the product, process, media or design in support of a product or service

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)

The Corporate Award: For corporate use of innovation: Nominations submitted by the judging panel only.