DuPont Australia today 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 post graduate tertiary student the opportunity to win lab time at a CSIRO facility valued at $20,000.
‘We are pleased to help nurture and support the young talent that will will contribute so much to our countries and economies in the future,’ Longe said.
DuPont is a science-based products and services company. Founded in 1802, DuPont puts science to work by creating sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere. DuPont Australia has been marketing its products for over 50 years, with its largest markets in agriculture and the coatings industry.
Since 1802, DuPont has been awarded patents for more than 34,000 inventions, which means that, on average, we have discovered a new innovation every other day for the past two centuries. DuPont science has delivered Nylon, Teflon®, Tyvek® and thousands of other breakthroughs that have helped make the world a better
