The Disruptive Innovation Award

TechWorks Disruptive Innovation Award

Sorry, applications for this award have been closed

Award Criteria

Criteria will include:

Business impact
Novel idea / technology
Extent of exploitation

While this award could encompass a new product that has developed a new market, it could equally apply to an existing product deployed in a new way; a new manufacturing process technology or the development of a new business model. The common theme running through all of this is an innovative idea or technology that’s been applied to derive real business benefit.

Who can apply?

Open to any company based in and/or operates from UK/Ireland who is able to show real business impact through true innovation.

Application Tips

The entry should be clear – It is better to give one example in detail and list others than attempt to cover too many topics in too much detail.

Give a background – The judges will not necessarily know about your sector or business, so a brief summary of these will help them place you in context. This might include size, turnover, recent issues in the sector, nature of business and so on.

State the challenges – All applications really consist of a challenge or series of challenges that have successfully been met.

Tell the story – Once the challenges are identified, you need to tell the judges how you met or overcame them. This is the most important part of the entry, it explains the actions, the issues and the reason that this is a potential winning entry.

Use results – Judges look for evidence in success and innovation, this can be demonstrated in a number of ways but simple facts and figures often tell the story best.

Summarise and make the case – why should you win? This is the point to say and not be shy!

Write your entries before submitting them – Write your entries offline, so that you have a permanent record of them. It will then take just a few minutes to submit them through our easy-to-use online submission system.

Download our ‘‘What Judges Want‘ document.

Online Application Form

The intent of the application process is to acquire sufficient evidence without being burdensome or overly bureaucratic to both applicants and judges. Award candidates are therefore encouraged to provide clear and concise information that is distinctly relevant to the award so that judges are not placed in a position of subjective interpretation.

Where you have worked as part of a team be sure to make it clear in the application how your achievements have been made – judges will not be able to make decisions on inconclusive evidence and will naturally frown upon information interpreted as misleading – therefore, if you worked as part of a team be explicit about what you have done and what was contributed by the team.

All accompanying information should be accurate at the time the application is submitted and should be unlikely to change adversely in a negative capacity in relation to the award before the end of the calendar year.