LESI Innovation Award

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LESI launched the LESI Innovation Award in 2022 with the aim to identify innovative ways that companies and their collaborators have brought ideas to the market. Previous winners are listed below.

** Nominations for this year have closed and awardees will be announced in LESI 2025 Annual Conference in Singapore, 27-29 April 2025.

LES members and other (non-member) licensing professionals globally are invited annually to submit nominations. The goal of this award is to highlight recent case studies in innovations and licensing– to recognize innovative approaches in leveraging technology and IP assets that lead to long-term market innovations and differentiation and to discuss the elements of these successful efforts globally within our LES community.

This award will be administered by the LESI Innovation Trends Committee. If you are interested sponsoring the award, please contact us at admin@lesi.org.

Award Criteria

1. The value created by the innovation -- Solid invention value creation process. Preference will be given to more collaboration in the ideation of the IP and multiple IPR and human actor competency assessments;
2. The Market Value of the Innovation -- Teamwork and partnerships, beyond R&D, market value and IP – more credit is given to anticipatory planning and activation;
3. Conduct of Contractual Arrangements – a comprehensive value chain analysis (from raw materials to consumers) is given more points; and
4. Alignment with Trends / Focus Areas Identified by LESI - the more factors of change affected (New Tech, New Actors, New Context, New Products, EEAM, Trade Secrets), the more points given.

Please carefully review the above criteria as well as the detailed guidelines when submitting a nomination. Higher scores are given to inclusive and impact-driven deals. The winner and a subset of the nominees will be used as learning tools to be shared with and discussed by LES members to understand the elements that contributed to the success of the nominee.

Nominations must be submitted to: innovationawards@lesi.org

Past LESI Innovation Award Winners:

2024 – Presented at LESI2024 (in Madrid, Spain)

Small Enterprise

Amaea (molecular filtration solutions) Amaea has achieved a groundbreaking feat as the world’s first company to effectively commercialize molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) technology for large-scale operations. Their innovative solutions are revolutionizing the beverage industry by enabling tailored sensory profiles through sustainable production methods.

Digital Innovation Award

Omnisient (Privacy Protecting Data Ecosystems) Omnisient is celebrated for its privacy-preserving data collaboration platform, which facilitates financial inclusion.

2023 – Presented at LESI2023 (in Montreal, Canada)

Large Enterprise: BASF (creation of novel customizable microsphere together with Harvard University)

Small Enterprise: CIRC (a technology system that returns clothes back to the raw materials from which they were made)

Research Institution: Philippine Rice Institute (an innovative approach in improving productivity using mechanized dry direct seeding technology”)

2022 – Presented at LESI2022 (in Venice, Italy)

Large Enterprise: Northrop Grumman

Small Enterprise: Lithoz ceramic 3D printing

** Links to videos were played during the LESI Annual Conference

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