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The Economist’s Sixth Annual Innovation Awards Ceremony and Summit Innovation strategies: past, present and future The Economist Technology Quarterly, December 2007 issue.

Bioscience— Medmira and BioMedica’s fast HIV diagnostic testing in just 3 minutes: “Hermes Chan and Abdullah Kirumira’s work not only helps prevent the spread of AIDS, but also has great application for fast diagnosis of many medical diseases and conditions”.

• http://www.medmira.com/
• http://www.biomedicadiagnostics.com/

Business process innovation— Infosys‘ offshore outsourcing model: “N R Narayana Murthy’s work not only led to the creation of a successful services outsourcing business—and industry—it led to the global presence in business that India enjoys today.”

• http://www.infosys.com/

Computing and telecommunications— Blacberry’s mobile email: “Mike Lazaridis gave us the ability to work and communicate with one, easy-to-carry integrated device that revolutionised—and truly personalised–computing”.

• http://blackberry.com/ 

Consumer products— Nintendo’s video game products: “No one is more identified with Modern Video Games than Shigeru Miyamoto. His pioneering vision and creativity truly created a new category of entertainment”.

• http://www.nintendo.com/

Energy and the environment— Philips Lumileds and Hewlett-Packard: “George Craford and Roland Haitz’s pioneering work on the development and commercialisation of LEDs means that the proportion of human energy consumption attributable to lighting will finally go down”.

• http://www.lumileds.com/
• http://www.hp.com/

Social and economic— Celtel’s mobile phone services: “Mo Ibrahim created Africa’s second largest cell phone company. But he wasn’t satisfied to just build a company: his new effort, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, aims to build a strong continent through the recognition of African leadership”.

• http://www.celtel.com/

No boundaries—IBM’s GMR, Giant-Magnetoresistive Effect: “There are no boundaries to the work of Stuart Parkin, Peter Grünberg, and Albert Fert. Their work–essentially making the storage and of information far more efficient–has had great impact upon audio-video streaming, cell phones, digital photography and animation, low-cost digital video cameras–and, of course, the ubiquitous MP3 music player”.

• http://www.ibm.com/

Corporate use of innovation— Procter & Gamble’s open innovation model: “Procter & Gamble’s achievements in innovation are remarkable because of the skill with which the company has institutionalised processes and procedures that allow innovation to come from customers and partners, as well as researchers and marketers within the company itself”.

• http://www.pg.com/

Note that the recipients of these awards are the individuals mentioned in each innovation category.

  J. de Francisco Chicago. 18 December 07

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