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Nominees and winners 2012
The 2012 European Inventor Award ceremony took place in Copenhagen, Denmark on 14 June.
Industry
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Winners: Jan Tøpholm, Søren Westermann and Svend Vitting Andersen (Denmark)
Tailor-made hearing aid -
Hugo Katus and Klaus Hallermayer (Germany)
Blood test to diagnose heart attacks -
Jaap Haartsen (the Netherlands)
Bluetooth technology
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Winners: Gilles Gosselin, Jean-Louis Imbach and Martin L. Bryant (France)
New drug for hepatitis B treatment - Jason Chin (UK) and Oliver Rackham (Australia) Re-engineering protein synthesis
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Mark van Loosdrecht, Merle Krista de Kreuk and Joseph Heijnen (the Netherlands)
Waste-water treatment method
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
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Winners: Manfred Stefener, Oliver Freitag and Jens Müller (Germany)
Portable direct methanol fuel cell -
Stefan Lehnert (Germany)
Architectural cladding system -
Farouk Tedjar and Jean-Claude Foudraz (France)
Method for recycling batteries
Lifetime achievement
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Winner: Josef Bille (Germany)
Device for laser eye surgery -
Josef Theurer (Austria)
Railway track-maintenance machinery -
Mario Moretti Polegato (Italy)
Vapour-permeable shoe
Non-European countries
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Winners: John O' Sullivan, Graham Daniels, Terence Percival, Diethelm Ostry and John Deane(Australia)
Wireless LAN for high-speed data transfer -
Stanford Ovshinsky (USA)
Clean energy battery -
Federico Capasso (USA), Jérôme Faist (Switzerland) and team
Quantum cascade lasers