DuPont launches 2010/2011 DuPont Australia and New Zealand Innovation Awards

DuPont Australia has launched its 2010/2011 DuPont Australia and New Zealand Innovation Awards, a biennial event designed to recognise the commercialisation of outstanding science and technology in Australia and New Zealand.

Since their launch in 2004, the DuPont Innovation Awards have showcased cutting-edge innovations from a range of Australian and New Zealand industries - many of which have gone on to achieve global commercial success. Independently judged by some of Australia and New Zealand’s most respected business leaders and academics, the awards have come to represent high achievement in industry and science.

“Innovation is more important than ever before,” said DuPont Australia Managing Director Graeme Longe.

“With the challenges of the global financial crisis still resonating in many sectors, new ideas, technologies, and products and services are the key to growing a stronger, more competitive economy.”

In an effort to nurture and support young innovators, DuPont has partnered with the CSIRO to introduce the CSIRO Young Innovator Award for the first time, offering graduate and postgraduate tertiary students the opportunity to win lab time at a CSIRO facility valued at $20,000.