21 March 2018

Final call for entries to the 2018 Stationers' Company Innovation Excellence Awards

The Stationers’ Company is making a final call for entries to its 2018 Innovation Excellence Awards that celebrate the contribution the UK Communications and Content Industries make to the UK economy.

The closing date for entries to be emailed to [email protected] is 6 April 2018. For details and entry forms, please see http://stationers.org/iea  

Companies, trade associations, charities, individuals, educational institutions and public bodies, including museums, libraries, galleries and archives are invited to enter their designs of novel products, services or business processes.

Entries will be evaluated on the novelty of the innovation, their economic performance or economic potential, and overall social impact in the UK by this year’s judging panel:

• Vida Barr-Jones, MD, Focus 7 International Ltd
• Jane Bickerstaffe, former Director of INCPEN
• Peter Day, former BBC Business Correspondent
• Helen Esmonde (Past Master of the Stationers’ Company), Publishing Director, Esmonde Publishing
• Jonathan Kingsbury, Head of Digital Economy and Creative Industries at Knowledge Transfer Network/Innovate UK
• Nick Steidl (Master of the Stationers’ Company), HH Pegg Limited
• Tim Webb, former CEO of PICON
• Jonathan Drori CBE

Chairman of the Stationers’ Company Innovation Excellence Awards, Jonathan Drori, says: “These annual Awards are free to enter and are a fantastic opportunity for entrants from across a diverse range of sectors to promote their achievements.”

Winners of this year’s Awards, which are kindly sponsored by the Knowledge Transfer Fund, Mathys & Squire, and PICON, will be announced at an Awards luncheon and exhibition of selected entries at Stationers’ Hall, London, on 26 June 2018.