FAQ

- Millennium is the world’s largest technology prize.

- The prize celebrates innovations that have a favourable impact on quality of life and wellbeing.

- In particular, the prize seeks to highlight innovations that assist and enrich our everyday lives today as well as in the future.

- The inaugural one million euro Millennium Technology Prize was presented to Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, in 2004.

- The Winner of the Millennium Technology Prize 2006 was Professor Shuji Nakamura, the inventor of new revolutionary light sources.

- The prize is awarded every second year.

- Candidates are sought from across the world and all fields of technology.

- The prize is conferred by the Millennium Prize Foundation.

- Today’s Finland is a welfare state at the global forefront of competitiveness and high tech production.

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