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Accenture sponsors IET Innovation in Engineering Awards
08 April 2008
The IET Innovation in Engineering Awards 2008 is a global challenge and is open to anyone who feels they have an innovative solution to a problem or comes up with an idea which is imaginative and inspiring.
IET Chief Executive, Robin McGill, said, “Innovation is about recognising relevant market needs and opportunities and generating bright ideas to make these a reality. We’re looking for true entrepreneurs, not in a financial sense but in the sense that they are prepared to take risks, seize opportunities and develop a vision into technology that can change lives.”
The award categories are: Asset Management, Built Environment, Electronics, Emerging Technologies, Information Technology, Power and Energy, Product Design, Project Team, Robotics, Control and Instrumentation, Security, Software in Design, Start-ups, Sustainability; Telecommunications and Transport.
Sponsors of the Project Team award, Accenture, said,“We’re delighted to be sponsoring the IET Innovation Awards, and particularly the award for Project Team. Accenture believes that innovation is the root to creating a high performance business – and that in modern business the way the project team interacts and supports innovation is the key to success.”
Entries will be judged by a panel of recognised industry leaders and engineering experts, and are being called for from organisations and individuals with an innovative engineering project, product or process for commercial use, that demonstrates genuine innovation and represents a significant technological advance.
This year the IET Awards ceremony will take place on Monday 3 November 2008 at the Park Plaza Riverbank, London. The event will be hosted by Maggie Philbin, who currently covers technology for BBC Breakfast News on their regular ‘Tomorrow’s World’ features, having spent ten years on the cutting edge science programme of the same name.
Mary Donovan
Media and PR Officer
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Notes to editors:
- The closing date is the end of June. For details of entry submission, please visit www.theiet.org/innovationawards:
- The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a world leading professional organisation working to develop science, engineering and technology
- The IET dates from 1871 and has more than 150,000 members in 127 countries with offices in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. It provides a global knowledge network to facilitate the exchange of information
- The IET registers more engineers each year than any other UK institution and approaching half the engineers on the Engineering Council register are IET members. More information, please see www.theiet.org