Chicago Innovation Awards
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The Chicago Innovation Awards was created by the Chicago Sun-Times
and Kuczmarski & Associates
in 2002. Each year the Awards recognize 10 Chicago area businesses, nonprofits, and government organizations that develop the year’s most innovative new products and services.
, the CEO of Morningstar.
, the founder of Archipelago, an electronic stock exchange that was recently bought out by The New York Stock Exchange. The event was hosted by Thomas Kuczmarski, President and Senior Partner of Kuczmarski & Associates
and Dan Miller
, Business Editor of the Chicago Sun-Times.
was the keynote speaker and the winner of the 2005 Visionary Pioneer Award.
Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the flagship paper of the Sun-Times Media Group.-History:The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city...
and Kuczmarski & Associates
Kuczmarski & Associates
Kuczmarski & Associates is a Chicago based management consulting firm founded in 1983, specializing in innovation. The company focuses on creating innovation strategies, implementing innovation processes, and developing portfolios of new products and services for its clients.In 2002, along with...
in 2002. Each year the Awards recognize 10 Chicago area businesses, nonprofits, and government organizations that develop the year’s most innovative new products and services.
2010
The 2010 Chicago Innovation Awards reception was held at the Goodman Theater. A Visionary Award was given to Rocky Wirtz, president of the Wirtz Corp. and owner/chairman of The Chicago Blackhawks, winner of the Stanley Cup in 2010.Recipients
- crowdSPRINGCrowdspringCrowdspring is one of the largest marketplaces in the world for crowdsourced creative services. Entrepreneurs, small businesses, startups, big Brands and agencies who need a custom logo design, website design, other graphic design, industrial design or copywriting post what they need, when they...
- A marketplace for creative services - Abbott LaboratoriesAbbott LaboratoriesAbbott Laboratories is an American-based global, diversified pharmaceuticals and health care products company. It has 90,000 employees and operates in over 130 countries. The company headquarters are in Abbott Park, North Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded by Chicago physician, Dr....
- ARCHITECT HIV Ag/Ab Combination Test - Chicago Transit AuthorityChicago Transit AuthorityChicago Transit Authority, also known as CTA, is the operator of mass transit within the City of Chicago, Illinois and some of its surrounding suburbs....
- Online Bus Tracker system - Smart Medical Technology - Liftaem patient transfer system
- Master LockMaster LockMaster Lock is an American company primarily known for developing and manufacturing padlocks, combination locks and related security products. Now an operating unit of Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc., Master Lock Company LLC was formed in 1921 by locksmith-inventor Harry Soref, and is...
- Speed Dial - SoCore Energy - Portable solar mounting system
- MJSI Inc. - HydroRight
- USG Corporation - Sheetrock Brand Ultralight Panels
- Lextech Labs - iRa C3
- Molex Inc. - Circular MT Expanded Beam Interconnect
- Touch Taste Technologies - TouchLife Interactive Tables
- InContext SolutionsInContext SolutionsInContext Solutions is an internet-based market research company that specializes in 3D virtual store simulation and creation. InContext Solutions was founded by Bob Gillespie, Rich Scamehorn, and Tracey Wiedmeyer, in December 2008....
- 3D Virtual Store Research
Recipients
- EveryBlock - A news feed for your block
- HeartSounds, Inc. - easy to use cardiac monitoring devices
- Abbott LaboratoriesAbbott LaboratoriesAbbott Laboratories is an American-based global, diversified pharmaceuticals and health care products company. It has 90,000 employees and operates in over 130 countries. The company headquarters are in Abbott Park, North Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded by Chicago physician, Dr....
- Similac SimplePac - HERO Pipe - Highrise emergency response offensive pipe
- AircellAircellAircell is a private company started in 1991 developing broadband for both private and commercial aviation. Aircell is the only company in the United States authorized by the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Aviation Administration to use frequencies in the 800 MHz band for...
- Gogo Inflight Internet Service - ComScoreComScorecomScore is a Internet marketing research company providing marketing data and services to many of the Internet's largest businesses. comScore tracks all internet data on its surveyed computers in order to study online behavior....
- comScore Ad Effx Suite: Offline Sales Lift - GrouponGrouponGroupon is a deal-of-the-day website that features discounted gift certificates usable at local or national companies. Groupon was launched in November 2008, the first market for Groupon was Chicago, followed soon thereafter by Boston, New York City, and Toronto...
- Collective buying powerCollective buying powerCollective buying power is when a group of consumers come together and use the old rule of thumb, there's power in numbers, to leverage the group size in exchange for discounts.- In the marketplace :... - Rescue Vac Systems, Inc. - Rescue Vac 800 Series Rescue Kit
- Suncast Corporation - No Crank Water Powered Hose Reel
- University of Illinois at ChicagoUniversity of Illinois at ChicagoThe University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, near the Chicago Loop...
- Robotic Surgery Program - Tripp Lite - ECO Series UPS Systems
- Visible Vote - Vote Past Election Day
- The Art Institute of Chicago - The Modern Wing
Recipients
- PrepMePrepMePrepMe is a for-profit American company that offers online courses and tutoring for standardized achievement tests, in particular those offered by the Educational Testing Service , such as the PSAT and SAT, and also the ACT offered by ACT, Inc...
- MolexMolexMolex is a leading global supplier of electronic interconnectors. Molex sells over 100,000 products, including everything from electrical and fiber optic interconnect solutions to switches and application tooling....
- Flashpoint
- First AlertFirst AlertFirst Alert is an American safety brand company, based in Aurora, Illinois. They make carbon monoxide detectors, smoke alarms, fire extinguishers, and other safety products like flashlights and fire escape ladders...
- ZorchZorchZorch, who formed in 1973, were England's first totally electronic band, pioneering integrated performances of synthesizers and lightshow. Originally a four piece, by 1975 Zorch were performing as a duo: Basil Brooks and Gwyo Zepix played three monophonic EMS analogue synthesizers, but were...
- The Gas Technology Institute
- CleversafeCleversafeCleversafe, Inc. is a privately held company based in the United States which is pioneering Dispersed Storage technology and software. Dispersed storage is a technology that uses erasure codes to split data into multiple slices, each of which is then stored to an independent storage appliance via...
- Fieldglass Insight
- Abbott LaboratoriesAbbott LaboratoriesAbbott Laboratories is an American-based global, diversified pharmaceuticals and health care products company. It has 90,000 employees and operates in over 130 countries. The company headquarters are in Abbott Park, North Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded by Chicago physician, Dr....
- National Pasteurized Eggs
2007
The 2007 Chicago Innovation Awards reception was held at the Goodman Theater. A Visionary Pioneer Award was given to Joe MansuetoJoe Mansueto
Joseph D. Mansueto is the founder and CEO of Morningstar, Inc.. In 2011, his majority ownership of Morningstar gained him inclusion on the Forbes World's Billionaires list, with a net worth at time of publication of $1.6 billion....
, the CEO of Morningstar.
Recipients
- Abbott LaboratoriesAbbott LaboratoriesAbbott Laboratories is an American-based global, diversified pharmaceuticals and health care products company. It has 90,000 employees and operates in over 130 countries. The company headquarters are in Abbott Park, North Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded by Chicago physician, Dr....
- The Abbott RealTime HIV-1 Assay and the m2000 System - Ovation Pharmaceuticals - Innovative Business Model
- Experencia Immersive Learning Center - EarthWorks and Exchange City
- DriFire - driFire Performance FR Wear
- City Of ChicagoChicagoChicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
- Chicago Department of Transportation's Green Alley Program - S&C Electric Company - TripSaver Dropout Recloser
- SkinnyCorp - ThreadlessThreadlessThreadless is an online community of artists and an e-commerce website based in Chicago, Illinois since 2000. Co-founders Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart started the company with $1,000 in seed money after entering an Internet t-shirt design contest....
- Radio Flyer - Ultimate Family Wagon
- SAVOSavoSavo may refer to:* Savo Island near Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands* Battle of Savo Island, 9 August 1942* Savonian dialects of the Finnish language* Savonia or , a historical province of Finland* Savo - a main-belt asteroid...
- SAVO - Fellowes - The Powershred DS1 personal shredder with SafeSense
2006
The 2006 Chicago Innovation Awards reception was held on October 30, 2006 at the Goodman Theater. A Visionary Pioneer Award was given to Gerald PutnamGerald Putnam
Gerald Putnam is an American businessman. He started Archipelago holdings, an electronic communication network, in 1999. In 2006; it was acquired by the NYSE for almost $3 billion...
, the founder of Archipelago, an electronic stock exchange that was recently bought out by The New York Stock Exchange. The event was hosted by Thomas Kuczmarski, President and Senior Partner of Kuczmarski & Associates
Kuczmarski & Associates
Kuczmarski & Associates is a Chicago based management consulting firm founded in 1983, specializing in innovation. The company focuses on creating innovation strategies, implementing innovation processes, and developing portfolios of new products and services for its clients.In 2002, along with...
and Dan Miller
Dan Miller
Dan Miller may refer to:* Dan Miller , Middleweight fighter in the Ultimate Fighting Championship* Dan Miller , former Premier of British Columbia* Dan Miller , former member of the U.S...
, Business Editor of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Recipients
- Sara Lee - Soft and Smooth Made with Whole Grain White Bread
- USG Corporation - SHEETROCK Brand Lightweight All Purpose Joint Compound - Plus 3 (Ready-mixed) with Dust Control
- FeedburnerFeedBurnerFeedBurner is a web feed management provider launched in 2004. FeedBurner was founded by Dick Costolo, Eric Lunt, Steve Olechowski, and Matt Shobe. Costolo, a University of Michigan graduate, became CEO of Twitter in 2010...
- FeedburnerFeedBurnerFeedBurner is a web feed management provider launched in 2004. FeedBurner was founded by Dick Costolo, Eric Lunt, Steve Olechowski, and Matt Shobe. Costolo, a University of Michigan graduate, became CEO of Twitter in 2010...
Feed Management - MotorolaMotorolaMotorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...
- Finger Writing Technology - Goettsch Partners - 111 S. Wacker Office Building, Chicago
- LoggerHead Tools - Bionic Wrench
- Check, Please!Check, Please!Check, Please! is a popular restaurant review program that airs on Chicago's PBS member station WTTW. The show first aired in 2001.The format of the show is very simple: three everyday people, from anywhere in the greater Chicago area, sit down with a host to discuss three eating establishments,...
- Check, Please!Check, Please!Check, Please! is a popular restaurant review program that airs on Chicago's PBS member station WTTW. The show first aired in 2001.The format of the show is very simple: three everyday people, from anywhere in the greater Chicago area, sit down with a host to discuss three eating establishments,... - Ocean Tomo LLCOcean Tomo LLCOcean Tomo is an intellectual property merchant bank that provides financial products and services, including expert testimony, valuation, research, ratings, investments, risk management, and transactions. They are headquartered in Chicago, IL, USA. They also have offices in Greenwich, Orange...
- Live Intellectual Property Auctions - Community Energy Cooperative - Energy-Smart Pricing Plan
- 37signals37signals37signals is a privately held web application company based in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was co-founded in 1999 by Jason Fried, Carlos Segura, and Ernest Kim as a web design company. Segura left in 2000 and Kim left in 2003, leaving Fried as the only remaining founder.Since mid-2004, the...
- BasecampBasecamp (software)Basecamp is a web-based project-management tool developed by 37signals and launched in 2004. The Ruby on Rails framework was extracted from the Basecamp project.-Features:...
2005
In 2005, the Chicago Innovation Awards reception was held on October 18 at the Goodman Theater. Casey Cowell, founder of U.S. RoboticsU.S. Robotics
USRobotics Corporation is a company that makes computer modems and related products. It sold high-speed modems in the 1980s, and had a reputation for high quality and compatibility. With the reduced usage of voiceband modems in North America in the early 21st century, USR is now one of the few...
was the keynote speaker and the winner of the 2005 Visionary Pioneer Award.
Recipients
- Abbott LaboratoriesAbbott LaboratoriesAbbott Laboratories is an American-based global, diversified pharmaceuticals and health care products company. It has 90,000 employees and operates in over 130 countries. The company headquarters are in Abbott Park, North Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded by Chicago physician, Dr....
- PathVysion - City of Chicago/Millennium ParkMillennium ParkMillennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, USA and originally intended to celebrate the millennium. It is a prominent civic center near the city's Lake Michigan shoreline that covers a section of northwestern Grant Park. The area was previously...
, Inc. - Millennium Park - Intellext - Watson
- Laminar Technologies, LLC - TurboTap
- LISC/Chicago - The New Communities Program
- MotorolaMotorolaMotorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...
- RAZR V3 - Novarra - nWeb Mobile Browser
- USG Corporation - DUROCK Tile Membrane
- Vibes Media - iRadio Text Messaging Platform
- Solvent Systems, International - Grease Gator
Recipients
- ACCO BrandsACCO BrandsACCO Brands Corporation is an umbrella company, created by the merger of ACCO World from Fortune Brands with General Binding Corporation .-History:In 1903, Fred J...
- Wilson Jones Big Mouth Filer - American Cancer SocietyAmerican Cancer SocietyThe American Cancer Society is the "nationwide community-based voluntary health organization" dedicated, in their own words, "to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and...
- Patient Navigation Services Program - ArryxArryxArryx, Inc. develops tools and technology for manipulation and measurement on the micro and nano lengthscales. Arryx's technology and products center around optical trapping. They specialize in holographic optical trapping, a technique for creating and moving many optical traps at once...
- Bioryx Platform - Chicago Mercantile ExchangeChicago Mercantile ExchangeThe Chicago Mercantile Exchange is an American financial and commodity derivative exchange based in Chicago. The CME was founded in 1898 as the Chicago Butter and Egg Board. Originally, the exchange was a non-profit organization...
and Chicago Board of TradeChicago Board of TradeThe Chicago Board of Trade , established in 1848, is the world's oldest futures and options exchange. More than 50 different options and futures contracts are traded by over 3,600 CBOT members through open outcry and eTrading. Volumes at the exchange in 2003 were a record breaking 454 million...
- Common Clearing Link - Digital Kitchen - BrandTheatre
- TriTeq Lock and Security - TriTeq Lock
- OrbitzOrbitzOrbitz Worldwide, Inc. is an Internet travel company headquartered in the Citigroup Center in Near West Side, Chicago, Illinois. Through its primary web site Orbitz.com, Orbitz Worldwide enables travelers to research, plan and book a broad range of travel products, facilitating 1.5 million flight...
for Business - Orbitz - Middleby-Marshall Corporation - WOW Pizza Oven
- nPhase, LLCQualcommQualcomm is an American global telecommunication corporation that designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services based on its code division multiple access technology and other technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, USA...
- Machine-to-Machine Solutions
Recipients
- Abbott LaboratoriesAbbott LaboratoriesAbbott Laboratories is an American-based global, diversified pharmaceuticals and health care products company. It has 90,000 employees and operates in over 130 countries. The company headquarters are in Abbott Park, North Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded by Chicago physician, Dr....
- HUMIRA - Archipelago Holdings, LLC - The Archipelago Exchange
- Authentify, Inc. - Authentify
- CoolSavings, Inc. - Coupon Technology
- Globus AllianceGlobus AllianceThe Globus Alliance is an international association dedicated to developing fundamental technologies needed to build grid computing infrastructures...
- Globus Toolkit - MotorolaMotorolaMotorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...
- Motorola Canopy Wireless Broadband - PAWS Chicago - Lurie Family Spay/Neuter Center
- ShureShureShure Incorporated is an American corporation originally founded by Sidney N. Shure in Chicago, Illinois in 1925 as a supplier of radio parts kits. The company became a consumer and professional audio-electronics manufacturer of microphones, wireless microphone systems, phonograph cartridges,...
- Sure E2/E2C Earphones - SmartSignal Corporation - Equipment Condition Monitoring
- Wilson Sporting GoodsWilson Sporting GoodsThe Wilson Sporting Goods Company is a sports equipment manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois, and currently is a foreign subsidiary of the Finnish company Amer Sports....
- Youth Batting Helmet
Recipients
- Aon Risk Services - Wired for Growth
- Argonne National Laboratory and SourceTech Medical - “Fast Track” Commercialization for Production of 125 Implant Seeds
- City of Chicago - Mayor Daley’s Earned Income Tax Credit Program
- Madison Information Technologies - ALIGNDEX
- Northwestern Memorial HospitalNorthwestern Memorial HospitalNorthwestern Memorial Hospital is one of the nation's preeminent academic medical centers and is the primary teaching hospital for Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. It is the second tallest hospital in the United States and the fourth tallest hospital in the world...
- Best Patient Experience - QuesTek Innovations - Materials by Design
- RubbermaidRubbermaidRubbermaid is an American manufacturer and distributor of many household items. It is a subsidiary of Newell Rubbermaid. It is most well known for producing food storage containers and trash cans...
Home Products - Tool Tower - Sara Lee Corporation - Bali Shoulder Spa
- United Air Lines - EasyUpdateSM Provided by Centerpost Corporation
- Walgreen Co. - Multi-Language Prescription Label