Thomas Klinger

Prof. Marc Gruber is a leading researcher, focused on bringing new technology to market. He significantly advanced the practice of innovation with the Market Opportunity Navigator (co-developed with his PhD student Sharon Tal) – which helps in the highly critical phase of identifying the best markets for new technology. Launched…

Tonico Deodato’s project investigates the influence of social motivation on the social impairments present in children with ASD through observation of their helping and cooperative behavioural tendencies.

The nominating institution National University of Singapore on the breakthrough: Static charge is ubiquitous, and causes a lot of problems. It reduces the efficiency of manufacturing processes, damages equipment, causes explosions, and allows particles to stick onto surfaces easily (e.g., dust on screens). As such, it influences almost all types…

Common lecture recording techniques include voiceover and picture-in-picture. These approaches separate the lecturer from the content. The live composite video lecture technique avoids that by layering slide content directly over the video in real-time. This allows the lecturer to monitor slide content and interact with it as if it were…

Eliakim Kouakou Isaac Kouadio is tackling the impediment of electricity shortages in agro-pastoral development in Africa, adversely affecting farmers’ yields and rural villages. His solution involves the development of a chip, VK 001, which extracts chemical electricity from plants, providing green electrical energy to vulnerable populations without conventional electricity sources.

Julia Leduc, co-founder and CEO of Anymate Me, explains why her start up Anymate me is the future of Video Production for academic and corporate training. Anymate Me is a science-oriented deep tech start-up based in Germany. Our mission is to revolutionize linear, costly and time-consuming video production and editing…

Ulrike Felt is Professor of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the University of Vienna, Austria. Holding a PhD in physics and a second degree (habilitation) in the social sciences, Felt is addressing pressing issues at the intersections of science, innovation and society. Her research critically examines contemporary lives in…

“Community Water Monitoring: diagnosis and collective action plan for the recovery of the Manialtepec river basin. Through observation, recording and interpretation of environmental data (chemical, biological and hydromorphological parameters), middle and high school students of this rural towns, develop a communication strategy to share the results and involve the authorities…

The world today is facing the greatest threat to our continuous survival as humanity. Last year was Code Red for Humanity, as the IPCC called it. The UN juxtaposes the three greatest threats facing the Globe and calls them The Triple Planetary Crisis – Climate Change, Pollution and Biodiversity loss.…

Nominated by: Thomas Ribeiro, CNRS Innovation Presented by: Thomas Hiriart