The NorTech Innovation Awards program celebrates innovation in Northeast Ohio by seeking out the most exciting and impactful innovations from companies, entrepreneurs, universities, and non-profit organizations throughout the region and honoring those innovative individuals and organizations who have transformed their creative ideas into reality. Innovation is alive and well here in Northeast Ohio! We intend to demonstrate that fact by showcasing the region’s best examples of innovation for all to see and appreciate and aspire to.

NorTech is now accepting nominations for the 2009 NorTech Innovation Awards. Please help find the best innovations in the region by encouraging the innovators that you know to apply. Self nominations are invited and encouraged. Click here to download the complete MS Word Nomination Form! Nominations are being accepted through October 24, 2008.

In the scope of the NorTech Innovation Awards, innovation is defined as the transformation of technical and scientific knowledge into novel products, services, and processes that result in positive economic impact to the organization, the community, the country and the world. Innovation embodies the union of creativity, expressed in the discovery of new scientific and technological knowledge, with commercialization, which includes all of the efforts necessary to successfully bring the novel product, service or process to the marketplace to achieve economic impact.

The NorTech Innovation Awards will recognize innovations that fall into one or more of five broad technology areas: BioSciences; Instrumentation, Controls & Electronics; Advanced Engergy Propulsion; Advanced Materials; Information & Communications Technologies

For More Information, Please Contact:
Dave Karpinski
VP of Technology Innovation
NorTech
(216) 363-6892
dkarpinski@nortech.org