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Exciting news! We’re proud that the West Midlands Innovation Accelerator has been nominated at this year’s Innovation Awards — and not only that — we also have our West Midlands Innovation Programme Project Lead, Iain Mansell nominated for Male Innovator of the Year!
We hope to repeat the same success of last year when our Director, Dr Pam Waddell OBE, won in the ‘Innovation Thought Leader’ category.
We’d be grateful to receive your support in the form of a vote as we continue to celebrate innovation across our region!
There are also a range of individuals, organisations and businesses that have been shortlisted including a number of our partners involved with the West Midlands Innovation Programme, including:
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Male Innovator of the Year:
Tim Luft of Create Central who has also been nominated is leading on CoLAB: a West Midlands Innovation Programme designed to support businesses working on content production and gaming specialisms in the creative sector.
Growth Innovation Champion of the Year:
Our partners at Sustainability West Midlands who lead on on the Innovative Zero Carbon Working Group are up for this well deserved nomination.
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Engineering Innovator of the Year:
Alloy Wire International is a company based in Brierley Hill and was one of the organisations supported on ASSIST, the West Midlands Innovation Programme focussed on helping manufacturing companies navigate the innovation fund ecosystem.
Click this link to read the report in full.
Manufacturing Innovation Champion of the Year:
Our partners at WMG, University of Warwick have been shortlisted in this category and do amazing work for our manufacturing working group.
Innovation Thought Leader Organisation:
West Midlands Innovation Accelerator — See the impact the £100m fund has had so far to businesses across across our region! To read the case studies collected so far, click here.
And finally, our partners from the West Midlands Health Tech Cluster who are our go to experts for health technology have also been nominated in this category!
Congratulations to all the individuals and organisations that have been shortlisted!