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Why does Wales need a National Innovation Award? Because Innovation deserves a much higher profile in Wales and much wider publicity than it currently receives. That is not to say that people aren’t talking about it. Everybody is TALKING about it; Innovation is the in-word. But comparatively few are DOING it, and it is the achievements of that few and their continuing efforts which the Wales Innovation Award will recognise and widely broadcast.
The WINNER for 2009 was TRICHOTECH
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2008 CASE STUDIES - click here
Innovation has been a buzz word in Wales for
three years or so now, everybody is talking
about it, a few of us are busily promoting it,
but the question we were all afraid to ask until
now has been – is anybody in Wales actually
doing it?
Well yes, we can say – without fear of
contradiction. In the inaugural Wales
Innovation Award 2008, we invited Welsh
business to tell us about anything they had
done over the previous 18 months – 2 years
which was deliberately innovative. Why did
they do it? What did they do? Of what did
the “difference” consist and how could they
demonstrate that? And finally, where there
has been market exposure, how successful
had it been?
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Many organisations – more than a thousand – have had dealings with Wales Quality Centre over the last twenty years and the principles of Quality, once so sadly conspicuous by their absence, are now built in to the way we manage and the way we do business. ‘Failed in Wales’ no more. Yet the future and the prosperity of the Welsh economy is again in question, and the question is how do we cope with GLOBAL CHALLENGE, whether it be the challenge to our market share from advanced technologies across the world or the challenge of our jobs from low wage economies.
The answer is that we survive by using our brains. We have to outsmart the competition; be always one jump ahead of the pack in whatever is our field of endeavour. Because it was good enough last year does not mean it will be good enough next year. We need constantly to re-invent ourselves. That is innovation in a nutshell and we need to turn Wales into an innovative society. The whole of society, not just the manufacturing and service sectors, but everybody; public sector, education, health, all of us.
If I were asked to give an example of what I mean I would be hard put to find a better one than Penn Pharmaceutical Services, a business I have known and watched since its first origins in Wales. Their story and their workforce are models of what a truly innovative organisation ought to be. By their brave decision to fund the Wales Innovation Award they have raised the FLAG OF INNOVATION high above the parapet where all Wales can see it.
Now let us hope all Wales rallies behind.
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