Technology Awards

Welcome to TechnologyAwards.Org a rapidly growing resource site that embraces innovation in technology and brings you news and articles relating to the dynamic companies and the awards they receive for outstanding inovations and technological breakthroughs.

This site contains a comprehensive list of industry awards and winners as well as informative discussions about tech products ranging from MP3 players to satelite phones.

Some of the better known technology awards include….

World Technology Award… an annual recognition award given by the World Technology Network (WTN) to individuals and corporations. The first set of 20 awards was granted in 2000.

Queen’s Awards for Enterprise… The Queen’s Awards for Export, Export Achievement, Technology, Technological Achievement, commerce, trade unions and government. The awards are conferred by the reigning British monarchy.

Food Technology Industrial Achievement Award… for significant advances in the application of food technology to food production. Sponsored by ”Food Technology (magazine)”.

Technology Review

Technology Review magazine is published by Technology Review, Incorporated, a significant media company owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

It was STARTED in 1899, but was actually re-launched on April 23, 1998 under then publisher R. Bruce Journey. In 2005 it went through another change under the current editor in chief and publisher, Jason Pontin, to something again resembling the historical magazine.

Under Mr Journey, “MIT’s Magazine of Innovation,” placed an emphasis on new technology, tech products and how they get commercialised.

This exciting publication was mass-marketed to the general public and was also targeted at senior executives, researchers, financiers, and policymakers, as well as for the MIT alumni.

At TechnologyAwards.org we will try and identify technologies that we consider to offer a real benefit to consumers in general. Sections will be created on the site and detailed reviews written. Only products that we have tried ourselves will be included.

Areas that we will be investgating and have investigated include: seo technology, information technology, computer technology, future technology, assistive technology amongst many others.

IndustryWeek’s Technology and Innovation Awards

Every December since 1993 IndustryWeek’s Technology and Innovation Awards Program celebrates the primary drivers of the world’s economic progress — innovators and technologies.

The awards are given in the spirit of Josef Schumpeter, the distinguished Harvard economist and social theorist who posited more than 50 years ago that the mission of both organizations and societies should be to accelerate the pace of innovation.

Millennium Technology Prize awarded to inventor of new source of light

The 2006 Millennium Technology Prize was awarded to Shuji Nakamura. Professor Nakamura has developed a new, revolutionary source of light – bright-blue, green and white LEDs and a blue laser. The technology is used in several applications which improve the quality of human life.

Professor Nakamura is known for his technological wizardry with semiconducting gallium nitrides and is widely recognized as the world pioneer in light emitters based on the wide-bandgap semiconductor gallium nitride (GaN).

Nakamura’s breakthrough year was 1993, when he stunned the optoelectronic community with the announcement of very bright blue GaN-based light emitting diodes, LEDs.

Professor Nakamura, one of the great inventors of our time

”Shuji Nakamura is a splendid example of perseverance and dedicated research work, and of making a major breakthrough. He has worked with great determination for decades, and even severe setbacks have not prevented him from achieving something that other workers in the field regarded as almost impossible: using a reactor system of his own design to develop a solid material, in this case gallium nitride, into a powerful light source producing blue, green and white light, and also creating a blue laser,” says Pekka Tarjanne, Chairman of the International Selection committee.

“The lighting applications now made possible by his achievement can be compared with Thomas Edison’s invention of the incandescent lamp. In the course of time, energy-efficient light sources based on Shuji Nakamura’s innovation will undoubtedly become predominant.”