Economist’s annual prizes recognise successful innovators in seven categories. The Economist recognises these talented people through our annual Innovation Awards, presented in seven fields: bioscience, computing and communications, energy and the environment, social and economic innovation, business-process innovation, consumer products, and a special “no boundaries” category. The awards were presented at a ceremony in London on November 14th by Bill Emmott, editor-in-chief of The Economist. And the winners were:
- Herbert Boyer, co-founder and director of Genentech, and Stanley Cohen, professor of genetics and medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, for developing recombinant DNA technology.
- Computing and communications: Sergey Brin and Larry Page, co-founders of Google for the commercialisation of search technology.
- Energy and the environment: Stanford Ovshinsky, president and chief scientist and technologist, Energy Conversion Devices, for developing the nickel-metal-hydride battery.
- Social and economic innovation: Victoria Hale, chairman and chief executive, Institute for OneWorld Health, for her work promoting the development of pharmaceuticals for the developing world.
- Business-process innovation: Alpheus Bingham, chairman, InnoCentive, for his work developing a web-based problem-solving community.
- Consumer product: the iPod team at Apple for the development of the iPod digital-music player.
- No boundaries: Fujio Masuoka, professor, Tohoku University for the invention of flash memory.
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