Are you ready to enter this year's awards? Entry forms will be available from April onwards from www.icis.com/awards. Do you have a winning innovation - either a new product, business innovation or a CSR initiative in you company - then now is the time to think about putting it forward? The Awards, now in their fifth year, are sponsored by Dow Corning.
You might like to look at last year's winners. Go to: http://www.icis.com/Articles/2007/10/15/9069518/icis-innovation-award-winners-offer-real-potential-to-chemical-sector.html
Also, here's an interesting article on how to get the best out of innovation, written after a survey of ICIS Chemical Business readers and a high level Roundtable on innovaton, both sponsored by Celerant Consulting.
http://www.icis.com/Articles/2007/09/03/9058798/Innovation-vital-to-future-of-chemical-industry-roundtable.html
For lots more on the ICIS Innovation Awards go to www.icis.com/awards
If you have any questions on the Awards, please contact john.baker@icis.com. He is currently recruiting judges for this year - do you have any suggestions?
The five judges for the awards are now in place. They are:
More details on the Awards on 21 April - watch out and get those entries ready for the 4 July deadline
The Call for Entries brochure is now available for the 2008 ICIS Innovation Awards, sponsored by Dow Corning. Deadline for entries is 4 July. For any further details, please contact john.baker@icis.com. Tel: +44 20 8 652 3153.
Right! The awards are now live - you have until 4 July to enter. You can find more details, an article on the awards and a call for entry leaflet and entry form at http://www.icis.com/awards. The year, ICIS and sposor Dow Corning have decided to introduce two new categories: best business innovation and best innovation in the field of corporate social responsibilty (CSR). There is of course, still the category for the best overall product innovation and a category for best innovation by a small or medium-sized entrerprise. So, no excuse - get those entries rolling in. I might even highlight a few as they coem in on this forum!
Hey customiser, didn't I hear you on ICIS radio this week. How can you innovate in "corporate social responsiblity" whatever that is? Either you're a responsible company or you're not. Good to see the small guys getting a break too.
I just attended BIO's World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioprocessing conference in Chicago, which ended today. Definitely a lot of innovation going on in this end of the industry especially for bio-based chemicals.
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Hey Humphry - glad to hear you're listening into the excellent ICIS radio service.
The idea withthe CSR award is to recognise the effort and excellent some companies are putting into getting the sustainability message over to employees and external stakeholders. Check out a few of the recent CSR reports from the likes of DSM and BASF. Perhaps you might encourage entries through ICIS radio in future!
Already the awards are garnering publicity and support. Check our the press releases at PR newswire and Dow Corning and the mentions on the Cefic and SusChem sites.
For full information and an entry brochure, go to www.icis.com/awards
If you want to link your site to the awards web site please feel free to do so
More information from john.baker@icis.com
Is there any one out there looking to enter the ICIS Innovation Awards 2008? I've had several enquiries already - but as ever, expect all the entries to appear in the last week of the competition. Deadline remember is 4 July, so you've only got a matter of 4-5 weeks to get going.
Full details are listed on the Awards web site www.icis.com/awards. You can see pictures of last year's winner in the photo section of this site.
customiser:Is there any one out there looking to enter the ICIS Innovation Awards 2008? I've had several enquiries already - but as ever, expect all the entries to appear in the last week of the competition. Deadline remember is 4 July, so you've only got a matter of 4-5 weeks to get going. Full details are listed on the Awards web site www.icis.com/awards. You can see pictures of last year's winner in the photo section of this site.
I forwarded the info to some of my contacts. Flavors and fragrance company Symrise said they're interested.
Hey customiser, don't get down hearted. There'll be a rush at the end, was it mentioned in ICIS Chemical Business lately?
Thansk for the encouragement - there will be more plugs in the weekly business magazine from now on - just five weeks to go! See details at www.icis.com/awards
carothers: Hey customiser, don't get down hearted. There'll be a rush at the end, was it mentioned in ICIS Chemical Business lately?
Hi is there still time to enter the ICIS Innovation awards 2008?
carothers: Hi is there still time to enter the ICIS Innovation awards 2008?
Indeed there is Carothers - the deadline is 4 July - to see how to enter go to www.icis.com/awards - where you can see much ore about the awards, past winners and read the sponsor Dow Croning's messages