The finalists 2019

Due to the pandemic, the Award did not take place in 2020 and the short-listed finalists were deferred to the 2021 edition.

Industry

• Antonio Corredor Molguero and Carlos Fermín Menéndez Díaz (ES)
  Concrete mould for better breakwaters

• Klaus Feichtinger and Manfred Hackl (AT)
  Higher-performance plastic recycling

• Alexander van der Lely and Karel van den Berg (NL)
  Milking robots for healthier cows

Research

• Jérôme Galon (FR)
  Immunoscore®, a clearer cancer test

• Matthias Mann (DE)
  Protein analysis to diagnose disease

• Patrizia Paterlini-Bréchot (IT)
  ISET® blood filtration to detect tumour cells

Non-EPO countries

• Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre (US)
  Eco-friendly packaging from mushrooms

• Amnon Shashua and the Mobileye team (IL)
  Vision for vehicles to improve road safety

• Akira Yoshino (JP)
  Lithium-ion battery and its evolution

Small and medium-sized enterprises

• Esben Beck (NO)
  Lasers and AI for healthier salmon

• Rik Breur (NL)
  Marine antifouling fibre wrap

• Richard Palmer and Philip Green (UK)
  Flexible armour that hardens on impact

Lifetime achievement

• Maximilian Haider (AT)
  Sharper electron microscopes

• Marta Karczewicz (PL)
  Advances in video compression

• Margarita Salas Falgueras (ES)
  DNA amplification for genomics