The European Inventor Awards take place this year in Valencia, Spain.
This year's finalists included a professional musician, clinicians combatting cancer, robotics experts, young inventors helping us achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and a Lifetime Achievement laureate whose work may have saved millions of lives.
Nominations for this year have now closed.
The European Patent Office (EPO) has anounced on 20 June that Corma is the Lifetime Achievement laureate in the 2023 European Inventor Award. The EPO will pay tribute to his work during the ceremony in Valencia on 4 July at 12:00.
Recognising inventors that transform our world and our lives: European Inventor Award 2023 finalists announced
The European Patent Office (EPO) has announced on 9 May the 12 finalists of the European Inventor Award 2023, Europe's top innovation prize. The award honours inspiring and innovative inventors not only for their contributions to scientific and technological progress but also for the impact they and their patented inventions have on our daily lives. The finalists were selected by an independent international jury.
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The winners of the 2023 edition of the European Inventor Award will be announced at a hybrid ceremony on 4 July 2023 at 12 pm CET taking place in Valencia (Spain). The ceremony will be broadcast online here.
More information can be found on the EPO Inventor Award web page and in the press release published in our Documents section above.
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The finalists
The finalists come from a wide array of sectors. Many of their innovations aim to improve the everyday lives of people around the world and tackle society’s biggest challenges in areas such as sustainability on land, sea and even in space, energy efficiency, medical devices, food chain optimisation and mobility solutions, among others.
The 2023 finalists represent 12 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy and the United States. The independent jury is made up of former finalists, drawing on their wealth of technical, business, and intellectual property expertise. Once again, Wolfgang M. Heckl, Director General of the Deutsches Museum in Munich, is the jury chair. The jury selected the finalists from over 600 proposed candidates from around the world.
The finalists are:
Industry:
Non-EPO countries:
Research:
SMEs:
For more information about the inventions’ impacts and the inventors’ stories, please click here.
The Lifetime Achievement Award, Popular Prize and Young Inventors Prize
A key award category is the Lifetime Achievement. This year, the Lifetime Achievement category winner will be announced two weeks before the ceremony.
As from today, the public can participate in the European Inventor Award 2023 by voting online to decide which of the 12 finalists above should be awarded the Popular Prize. Voting will remain open until the day of the ceremony.
For the second year, the winners of the Young Inventors Prize will be announced on 23 May. The prize casts a spotlight on three ground-breaking initiatives and highlights the power of younger generations in shaping our world. Nominees must be 30 or under at the time of the award. Their initiatives must aim at using a technical solution to solve a problem within the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
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A look back at 50 years of European patents
In 2023 the EPO celebrates the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European patent system. When 16 countries signed the European Patent Convention in Munich on 5 October 1973, they ushered in a new era of co-operation on patents. This laid the ground for a patent system supporting economic and technological developments that have shaped our lives and continue to do so today. Find out more about the history of the EPO and the anniversary events planned in 2023.
About the EPO
With 6,300 staff members, the European Patent Office (EPO) is one of the largest public service institutions in Europe. Headquartered in Munich with offices in Berlin, Brussels, The Hague and Vienna, the EPO was founded with the aim of strengthening co-operation on patents in Europe. Through the EPO's centralised patent granting procedure, inventors are able to obtain high-quality patent protection in up to 44 countries, covering a market of some 700 million people. The EPO is also the world's leading authority in patent information and patent searching.
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