• "For inno360, the caliber, excellence, and achievement recognized by the Edison Award provided both national recognition and awareness of both our software platform for accelerated innovation, and our company. Some say that you are judged by the company that you keep, if that is the case, then we are in great company, and proud to be amongst the peer group recognized by the Edison Award. Because of the caliber of this award, and the recognition the award has brought us, we have now connected with some of the Edison's of today."

  Frank Kovacs, Chief Marketing Officer, inno360

• "The Edison Award reinforced what our customers are telling us - our dedicated products are leading in ultrasound innovations, allowing clinicians to provide the best quality of care to women of all ages."

  Karl-Heinz Lumpi, General Manager, Women's Health Ultrasound, GE Healthcare

• "Covergirl was thrilled to be recognized as an Edison Award winner for Covergirl & OLAY Simply Ageless Foundation, the only cosmetic product to receive this recognition in 2010."

  Vince Hudson, General Manager of North American Cosmetics, P&G Beauty & Grooming

• "At Align, we were thrilled to win the Edison Gold award. We consider it a great honor, and have integrated the news into our consumer and professional marketing materials."

  Tom Kuhn, Brand Manager, Align

• "Henkel is honored that Purex Complete 3-in-1 Laundry Sheets won a prestigious Edison Gold Award. We have leveraged the Edison Award seal on both consumer and trade marketing elements since the award resonates with all constituencies as a top innovative product."

  Stephen Koven, Senior Brand Manager | Laundry Care, Henkel

• "The Edison Award honor carries a tremendous perceived value and an embedded familiarity in all business, end user and international circles. Edison is a global mark and prestigious achievement for any recipient. The brand is well managed and highly regarded."

  Brian Levine, Vice President Business Development, Windtronics

• "I strongly encourage the innovators of today to engage in this process, and put their best foot forward, for both the experience, the exposure, and the connection opportunities represented by the Edison Award. It clearly opens new doors for everyone involved."

  Frank Kovacs, Chief Marketing Officer, inno360

• "Being a recipient of a prestigious Edison Best New Product Award has opened many new doors for our company. Relationships and partnerships forged during the event itself and as a result of the award have significantly helped to further our brand recognition among stakeholders, media, the online community and target customers."

  Art Jacobsen, General Manager, CarMD Corp.

• "Fast, quality test reporting is vital to patient care. The Edison award underscores the significance of the Simplexa and 3M technologies in bringing high-end molecular testing a step closer to the patient, for faster reporting of reliable results"

  John G. Hurrell, Ph.D., Vice President and General Manager, Focus Diagnostics

• "This award has great personal meaning for me. Thomas Edison has always been a hero of mine, so it is especially gratifying to be honored with an award bearing his name."

  Dr. D. Clark Turner, President and CEO of Aribex and the creator of the NOMAD.

• "Being selected as an Edison Award winner validates our drive to develop an all-new transportation solution.Innovation has been at the heart of the Volt from its onset; from the development of the li-ion battery to the drive unit and the driver connectivity."

  Tony Posawatz, Chevrolet Volt vehicle line director.

• "The Edison Award provides ongoing national recognition of our invention, which fuels the fire of perseverance to keep inventing even in the face of failure. The Edison Award is a validation that at CAPS the impossible is possible."

  Donna Deeds, Executive Director, CAPS

• "Passion for developing diagnostic innovations that will improve patient care is central to our culture and mission. Winning the prestigious Edison award underscores the strength of our commitment to innovation and our patients while also marking the success of our close collaboration with 3M. "

  Surya N. Mohapatra, Ph.D., chairman and chief executive officer, Quest Diagnostics.

• "The positive reaction that the MitraClip device has received from physicians, patients, academics, and organizations such as the Edison Awards, speaks volumes about the strength of Abbott's pipeline of groundbreaking new therapies. This gold award specifically recognizes the innovation and commitment to excellence that our employees have shown in taking this new treatment from concept to improving the lives of patients."

  Chip Hance, Senior Vice President, Vascular, Abbott.

CRITERIA

EDISON BEST NEW PRODUCT AWARD

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To be considered for a 2012 Edison Best New Product Award, your innovative product or service must have been launched between July 1, 2010 and February 29, 2012. If your product or service has not yet been launched and is still in development, please feel free to submit a nomination once you have reached production level.

All completed nominations with payment of entry fee will be reviewed by the Edison Awards Steering Committee, which makes the recommendation for finalists in each of the award categories.

International firms are welcome to submit nominations.

Nominations are due no later than December 16, 2011. Nominations received after that date will not be considered for the 2012 Edison Awards.

Building on the heritage of Thomas Edison and the 25-year legacy of the Edison Awards, we have evolved our evaluation criteria for the 2012 awards, ensuring that all companies, regardless of industry, domain or innovation type can clearly communicate, affirm and support their nomination. These new evaluation criteria were established to be more relevant, more comprehensive, more aligned with the ever-evolving definition of "innovation," more transparent for nominees AND more clearly defined for our voting bodies. All entries will be judged on the following Edison Award criteria:

• CONCEPT: opportunity, conception, method & development
  

  In the true spirit of Thomas Edison, we are looking for innovations that not only address a need and solve a problem but also seize an opportunity and create a new market or industry. And true to Edison's work, we are interested in the overall method and development of the concept and opportunity. We would like to understand how discovery, collaboration, iteration, prototyping, etc. contributed to the conception and development of the innovation as it progressed from genesis to design and implementation.

• VALUE: need/desire, differentiation, advantage & cost
  

  For Edison, value was a primary driver for his innovations. We would like to understand how the innovation satisfies an existing need or desire. We are seeking evidence for how the offering is different and whether it has distinct, game changing advantages over any alternatives. We also want to evaluate its unique value proposition, the relationship between its cost and benefits and its economic desirability.

• DELIVERY: message, engagement, availability, achievement
  

  Edison was not only an accomplished innovator but also a great communicator, marketer and master of delivery. We would like to understand how the message and broader story of the innovation is communicated in clear and compelling ways. We are looking for interesting examples of how consumers have been engaged and how the offering has been delivered and made available to the marketplace.. Finally, we are interested in how the value proposition of the offering is being achieved, fulfilled and validated in the marketplace.

• IMPACT: sustainability, social responsibility & potential
  

  Edison devoutly believed that real innovation not only demonstrated commercial success but also sustained sensitivity to broader implications. We would like to understand the immediate and longer term impact the innovation has on the environment and society as a whole. We are also interested in how the offering may establish a vision or be the basis of a larger system or platform of innovations and how it might be an inspiration to future innovation and innovators.

EDISON GREEN AWARD

For the first time in 2012, the Edison Green Award has partnered with CSRware, a recognized leader in cloud-based energy and sustainability management and sustainable supply chain software. Utilizing the CSRware technology, nominees for the annual Edison Green Awards will have the opportunity to benchmark and track their company's ability to meet established green goals.

The new partnership will allow the Edison Awards Steering Committee and its strong community of innovators a collaborative mechanism to compare marketplace innovation against an established green compliance criteria to determine organizations who are worthy of an Edison Green Award. The primary categories of Edison Green Award criteria include:

• ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION
  

  Organizational innovation reflects that the organization is internally focused on sustainability and creating a culture of green innovation. The organization has created an environment where sustainability is an important aspect of its operations and considered in high-level strategies.

• SOCIETAL IMPACT
  

  Societal impact focuses on the organization's external effects and the steps taken to mitigate the negative impacts or increase the positive impacts. It reflects that the organization understands it has an impact on the surrounding environment and community.