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URL: Location: Home→Topics→Innovation and the economy→European Inventor of the Year→Nominees and winners→2007

Nominees and winners 2007

Industry

  • Winners: Franz Lärmer and Andrea Urban (Germany)
  • Malcolm Begemann, Willem Boute and Marijn Van Gemert (the Netherlands)
  • Hans Meixner and Randolf Mock (Germany): page currently not available

SMEs/Research

  • Karlheinz Schmidt (Germany)
  • Hakan Lans (Sweden)
  • Winners : Catia Bastioli, Vittorio Bellotti, Luciano Del Giudice and Roberto Lombi (Italy)

Non-European countries

  • Winner : Joseph Vacca (USA)
  • Shuji Nakamura (Japan): page currently not available
  • Shigeo Nakanishi and Iwao Yamanaka (Japan)

Lifetime achievement

  • Winner : Marc Feldmann (United Kingdom)
  • Alec Jeffreys (United Kingdom)
  • Tim Lüth (Germany)



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