Most Innovative New Product Awards| 2009 Results
More than 800 of San Diego's top executives, entrepreneurs and academics attended CONNECT’s Most Innovative New Products (MIP) Awards at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines Hotel on Dec. 11. For the past 22 years, CONNECT’s MIP Awards have served as a benchmark for predicting San Diego’s most successful emerging technologies. The MIP Award winners were selected from 100 entries representing a broad range of companies within eight categories: action and sport, aerospace and security, cleantech, diagnostics and research tools, medical products, software, hardware and general technology and communications and IT. The CONNECT MIP Awards program has been an indicator of the industries and technologies that have stimulated the San Diego economy, from early stage biotechnology companies to the first products generated by the region’s telecommunications boom.
The 2009 MIP Award winners are:
Action and Sport Technologies
Neptunic Technologies for Neptech Protective Material
Neptech Protective Material is a light weight and clothing-like protective textile used in the manufacturing and design of specialized gear for the action sports and defense industries. |
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Clean Technology
ecoATM for ecoATM
ecoATM is an eCycling Station that automates trade-in and recycling programs for consumer electronics and mobile phone retailers by automatically inspecting used electronics, evaluating the condition and enabling the immediate buy back directly from consumers. |
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Aerospace and Security Technologies
Intevac Photonics, Inc. for Night Port
Night Port is a digital night vision viewer which offers extremely low light sensitivity, compact size, low weight and increased power performance for government and surveillance applications. |
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Life Science - Diagnostics and Research Tools
Naviscan for the Stereo Navigator Breast Biopsy Accessory
Stereo Navigator Breast Biopsy Accessory is a Positron Emission Tomography (or PET) guided biopsy tool that enables physicians to guide compatible interventional devices toward abnormalities in the breast. |
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Life Science - Medical Products
SynergEyes for ClearKone
ClearKone is a hybrid contact lens specifically designed for patients with moderate to advanced stages of keratoconus, a degenerative eye disease, that delivers a significant healthy amount of oxygen to the eye while maintaining a strong bond between the rigid and soft materials. |
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Software
Verance Corporation for Cinavia
A technology platform that employs Verance's proprietary audio watermarking techniques to enable the enactment of use policies for audiovisual content across a broad range of distribution channels and devices. |
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Hardware and General Technology
Cymer for XLR 600ix
XLR 600ix is a flexible power excimer laser light source for semiconductor lithography, addressing the market demand for electronic devices requiring smaller and more powerful computer chips. |
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Communications & IT
Nextivity for Cel-Fi
Indoor cellular coverage technology that is network safe, mass deployable, self installable and provides a measurable difference coverage and data throughput. |
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William W. Otterson Award
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. for the Predator
The Predator is the most successful unmanned aircraft surveillance program that has ever been made to support all the U.S. armed forces in combat. The Predator provides tactical and strategic intelligence to operational commanders worldwide. |
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Distinguished Contribution Award for Life Science
Catherine Mackey, Senior Vice President, PGRD & Director of Pfizer Inc.
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Distinguished Contribution Award for Technology
Todd Gutschow, Chairman of Classroom of the Future Foundation
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Program Contact:
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Nancy van Dillen
Program Manager
Most Innovative New Product Award
Email: nvandillen@connect.org
Phone: (858) 964-1315
Fax: (858) 964-1301
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