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The European Inventor of the Year awards are presented annually by the European Patent Office and the European Commission's DG Enterprise and Industry to inventors who have made a significant contribution to innovation in Europe. The European Patent Organisation ( EPO or EPOrg) is a public international organisation created in 1977 to grant Patents in Europe under The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive branch of the European Union. A Directorate-General is a division of civil servants akin to a department or government ministry. The winners in each category are presented with an award shaped like a sail. There is no cash prize associated with the awards.

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Award categories

The European Inventor of the Year awards are presented in the following categories:

Nomination and selection

Each year the European Patent Office calls on its patent examiners to propose inventions for the award that were patented at the European Patent Office over a given ten-year period and have since made a significant contribution towards innovation in Europe.

A shortlist of nominees is then drawn up from the examiners' proposals and submitted to an international jury. The jury selects three inventors in each category for the final round, and eventually chooses the winners.

Some of the national patent offices in the member states of the European Patent Organisation, including Austria, Germany and France, have indicated an interest in contributing to the nominations, and the selection procedure may be changed for coming awards to take this into account.

European Inventor of the Year 2007

The second European Inventor of the Year awards took place at the International Congress Center in Munich, Germany on 18 April 2007. Prizes were presented to inventors - individuals and teams - in four categories.

The 2007 winners were:

European Inventor of the Year 2006

The first European Inventor of the Year awards took place at the AutoWorld Museum in Brussels on 3 May 2006. AutoWorld is a Vintage car Museum in the center of Brussels Belgium, located in the southern hall of the Parc du Cinquantenaire. Brussels (Bruxelles pronounced; Brussel pronounced) officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is Prizes were presented in six categories.

The 2006 winners were:

Jury

In 2007, the jury was made up of:

For the 2006 awards, the jury comprised:


References

  1. ^ European Inventor of the Year 2007 in the category "Industry"
  2. ^ European Inventor of the Year 2007 in the category "SMEs/research"
  3. ^ European Inventor of the Year 2007 in the category "Non-European inventors"
  4. ^ European Inventor of the Year 2007 in the category "Lifetime achievement"
  5. ^ European Inventor of the Year 2006 in the category "Industry"
  6. ^ European Inventor of the Year 2006 in the category "Small and medium-sized enterprises"
  7. ^ European Inventor of the Year 2006 in the category "Universities and research institutes"
  8. ^ European Inventor of the Year 2006 in the category "New EU member states"
  9. ^ European Inventor of the Year 2006 in the category "Non-European countries"
  10. ^ European Inventor of the Year 2006 in the category "Lifetime achievement"

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