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Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 24 March 2006
Prizes celebrate European innovation
The 2006 European IST Prizes have been awarded at a gala ceremony in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna
A computer memory that can survive radiation and temperatures up to 200C, a security system that recognises your face and a digital content 'fingerprinting' system to deter multimedia pirates are the grand prize winners of the 2006 European IST Prize. Each grand prize winner received a prize of Eur 200,000.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 March 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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'Their products can be built into those of other firms in many industries, and so enhance the competitiveness of the EU economy as a whole', said Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding, as she announced the winners.
The European IST Prize is organised by the European Commission together with the European Council of Applied Sciences, Technologies and Engineering (Euro-Case).
It is open each year to companies or organisations that present an innovative information technology product with promising market potential.
The three grand prize winners, of equal merit, are: Cavendish Kinetics, for Nanomech (Netherlands); Guardia, for Guardia Control System (Denmark); and Advestigo, for AdvestiSearch (France).
The prizes were awarded by Viviane Reding, Hubert Gorbach, Austrian Vice Chancellor and Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology, and Eduard Mainoni, State Secretary for Technology at a gala ceremony in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna.
Reding pointed out that ICTs in Europe were responsible for 45% of the growth in labour productivity from 2000 to 2004 and called for more European investment in ICT.
However, she added: 'We must also ensure that this investment feeds a chain of innovation and growth throughout the economy'.
The European IST Prize is funded by the European Commission's IST Programme.
Independent experts, proposed by Euro-Case, assessed the proposals and recommended the winners and grand prize winners to the European Commission.
The executive jury was chaired by Guy Demuynck, Member of the Executive Board of KPN and CEO of KPN Mobile, who was also master of ceremonies at the award ceremony.
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