Categories
Innovation in Development
This award will be given to a business or an individual who can demonstrate the greatest impact or potential impact for a product or service they have developed in association with a Midlands University. The collaboration needs to be able to show a viable product or process, which has been prototyped, or has reached the prototyping stage.
Innovation in Development - Application form (doc)
Innovation Achieved
This award will be given to a business or an individual, which demonstrates the greatest potential for a product or service it has developed in association with a Midlands University, where the product or service is providing revenue streams back to the Company and is fully available in the market place.
Innovation in Achieved - Application form (doc)
Innovation for Environmental Sustainability
This award will be given to a business or an individual, which can demonstrate either new products or services that contribute to environmental sustainable development, or who have implemented change in the company itself. Any contribution must be in association with a Midlands University.
Innovation for Environmental Sustainability - Application form (doc)
Open Collaboration Award
This Award will be given to a consortium of partners, lead by a University in the Midlands. The consortium can be made up of multiple partners from both inside the Midlands and out. Providing a platform to showcase the region/s is a must. As in the other categories innovation and collaboration are key to success, and high levels of activity on both accounts must be demonstrated.
Open Collaboration - Application form (doc)
Application Guides
For Business
There are few things more satisfying in business than the opportunity to bring your ideas to life. Having those ideas recognised by your peers, your partners and the public at large (as is the case with the Lord Stafford Awards) is one of them. Being heralded as an organisation committed to innovation and an active collaborator with the region's Universities speaks volumes about you, your business, and your products and services. Regardless of whether you are one of the short listed companies, an award winner, or merely an applicant, the experience gained is an invaluable one.