INDIAN INNOVATORS ASSOCIATION

The Wall Street Journal Asia’s Asian Innovation Awards 2006

In keeping with traditions of Asian invention, you are invited to nominate yourself or your company for the 2006 WSJA Asian Innovation Awards, and the Global Entrepolis@Singapore Technopreneur Award. AIA entries can be new methods and technologies, or new ways to apply existing knowledge in creative ways to improve quality of life or productivity. Entries for the GES Technopreneur Award will be judged on innovation, technology and the commercial potential of their proposals. Entries may come from business or academia in Asia Pacific. Winners will be profiled in a special issue of The Wall Street Journal Asia on November 1, and will be honored at a special gala event in Singapore.

Deadline for entries: September 1, 2006

For more information on the Asian Innovation Awards, please visit www.dowjones.com/innovation/asia

Contact person : Eva Yim, Assistant Marketing Manager ,
The Wall Street Journal Asia ,
25/F Central Plaza ,
18 Harbour Road
Email: eva.yim@dowjones.com,
Tel: (852) 2831 2585, Fax: (852) 2503 1549

GLOBAL INDUS TECHNOVATORS AWARDS, 2006

The Indian Business Club @ MIT invites nominations for the GLOBAL INDUS TECHNOVATORS AWARDS, 2006.

The Global Indus Technovators Awards have been instituted by the Indian Business Club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, to recognize and encourage the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of talented and enterprising young South Asians.

Nominations are invited for people of Indian / Pakistani / Sri Lankan / Nepali / Bangladeshi origin who have made significant contribution, in either research or entrepreneurial capacity, to the advancement of technology in areas including, but not limited to, information technology, biotechnology, materials and devices, healthcare and medicine, developmental work, and energy.

Eminent personalities on previous awards judging panels have included Gururaj Deshpande (Sycamore Networks), Prof. Robert Langer (Institute Professor, MIT), Meyya Meyyappan (Director of the Centre for Nanotechnology, NASA's Ames Research Center), N.R. Narayana Murthy (Infosys Technologies), Prof. Alex (Sandy) Pentland (Media Labs, MIT), and Prof. Phillip Sharp (1993 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine), Prof. Subra Suresh (Department of Material Sciences and Engineering, MIT) and Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala (Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras).

Nominees must be of Indus (Indian/Pakistani/Sri Lankan/Nepali/Bangladeshi) origin, that is, they or their ancestors should be (or should have been) citizens of one of the aforementioned countries. Nominees must be born no earlier than 1st January 1966.

The nominations webpage is available at:
http://technovators.mit.edu/info_nom.php

The call for nominations is open until midnight (EST), May 31, 2006.

For more details, please visit the awards website at:
http://technovators.mit.edu

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