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 energy, transportation, automotive
Social and economic innovation: novel technologies and business models that improve everyday lives (eg, microcredit)
Computing and telecommunications: includes hardware, software, security, telecommunications
Consumer products and services: may include the product, process, media or design
“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, eg, blue-violet laser)
Criteria for selection
Nominees should be people, not companies, who are responsible for an innovation that has been a proven success in the past decade. Winners are selected based on their ideas':
• Impact on revenue of the nominee's sponsoring organisation, enterprise, or general economic or societal well-being
• Effect on a marketplace or the establishment of a new market; and
• Impact on an emerging branch of science and technology
Nomination process
Nominations are solicited from three sources: a distinguished panel of judges; Economist editors and writers; and Economist readers.
Nominations for the 2009 awards are now open and will be accepted until April 9th. Nominations from readers may be submitted by sending an e-mail or Word document to innovation@economist.com. Submissions should include the name, contact information, and current affiliation of the nominee. Submissions should explain in 200 words or less why the nominee should receive the award.
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