Surrey Innovation Awards

The Surrey Innovation Awards celebrates, educates, and connects innovators across all industries by Surrey businesses and helps make Surrey a recognized hub of innovation by igniting a new narrative for our city, strengthening its economic future and building the spirit of innovation.

Innovation Concepts:

• Transforming ideas into commercial reality
• Improving business processes
• Tying academic research and developments into commercial reality
• Innovation requires collaboration across a wide range of constituencies, including corporate leaders, start-up entrepreneurs, university leaders, faculty members, and students, investors, and public officials.

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Nominations

Categories

1. Small Business Innovation Award
2. Large Business Innovation Award
   These awards recognize a business or organization that has developed a new or improved technology, service, process or product by using creative methods and innovative thinking that has the potential to transform an industry sector or quality of life.
3. Social Innovator Award
   It demonstrates an approach to finding creative and workable solutions for the complex social issues facing modern communities, particularly Surrey, and emphasizes that good ideas alone are not enough to create the kind of progressive change that builds a better city.

Criteria

Based on a possible maximum score of 100, each category will be awarded a maximum of 20 points:

• Intellectual Achievement – The degree of intellectual achievement or quality of ingenious thinking and experiment to discover, create or conceive the innovation.
• Uniqueness and Originality—This refers to being original, the freshness of the aspect, design, or style utilized to produce the invention.
• Development – Refers to the extent to which the idea or concept has been thought through to completion.
• Commercialization – Refers to the degree of successful commercialization or quantifiable impact of the innovation.
• Benefits – Refers to the economic and social benefits to Canada resulting from the innovation.

Submission

Please submit your nomination to:

Heather Booth
101-14439 104 Avenue
Surrey, BC V3R 1M1
heather@businessinsurrey.com
T: 604.634.0341
F: 604.588.7549

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Previous Winners

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