Edison Awards is an American company that runs an annual competition honoring excellence in innovation in a broad range of categories.

Company

The Edison Awards were established by the

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in 1987 and has been an independent enterprise since 2008.

Awards

The Edison Awards are named after the inventor

Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison (February11, 1847October18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, ...

. They honor innovations in product and service development, marketing and human-centered design. Categories range from green technology to medical breakthroughs. Entrants must meet strict innovation criteria and competencies as defined in the book ''Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor'' (Gelb & Caldicott 2007). The Edison Awards Steering Committee reviews nominations; the finalists are then voted on by a large panel drawn from business professionals, scientists and academia. Entries are judged based on societal impact, creativity and marketplace success. In 2013, there were 14 categories and 38 sub-categories, with 131 award recipients.

Recipients

Past recipients of the Edison Achievement Award include: * 1991 – Herb Baum – Campbell Soup Co. * 1991 – Frank Perdue – Perdue Farms * 1992 – William McGowan – MCI Corporation * 1993 – J. Willard Marriott, Jr. – Marriott International * 1993 – Jay Van Andel – Amway Corporation * 1993 – Raymond W. Smith – Bell Atlantic * 1993 – Rich DeVos – Amway Corporation * 1994 – Bert C. Roberts – MCI Corporation * 1994 – H. John Greeniaus – Nabisco, Inc. * 1995 – Arthur Martinez – Sears, Roebuck & Co. * 1995 –

Robert Palmer Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer and songwriter. He was known for his powerful and soulful voice, sartorial elegance and stylistic explorations, combining soul, funk, jazz, rock, pop, regga ...

– Digital Corporation * 1996 – Douglas Ivester – Coca-Cola Company * 1996 – Nolan D. Archibald – Black & Decker * 1997 – Reuben Mark – Colgate-Palmolive * 1997 –

Martha Stewart Martha Helen Stewart (, ; born August 3, 1941) is an American retail business woman, writer, and television personality. As the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, focusing on home and hospitality, she gained success through a variety ...

– MSL Omnimedia * 1999 – Dale Morrison – Campbell Soup Co. * 1999 –

Ted Turner Robert Edward Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American entrepreneur, television producer, media proprietor, and Philanthropy, philanthropist. He founded the CNN, Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour United States cable news, ...

– Time Warner * 2009 – David M. Kelley – IDEO * 2009 – Susan Desmond-Hellmann – Genentech * 2010 – A.G. Lafley – Procter & Gamble * 2010 – Susan Hockfield – MIT * 2011 –

Alan Mulally Alan Roger Mulally (born August 4, 1945) is an American aerospace engineer and manufacturing executive. He was the CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes from 1998 to 2006, and later as president and chief executive officer of the Ford Motor Company ...

– Ford Motor Company * 2011 – John S. Hendricks – Discovery Communications * 2012 – Chris Anderson – TED * 2012 –

Steve Jobs Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder o ...

– Apple, Inc. * 2013 – Paul E. Jacobs – Qualcomm * 2014 –

Elon Musk Elon Reeve Musk ( ; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman. He is known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter), and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Musk has been considered the wealthiest person in th ...

– Tesla, SpaceX * 2014 –

Yang Yuanqing Yang Yuanqing (, born 12 November 1964) is a Chinese business executive and philanthropist who is the current chairman and CEO of Lenovo. Early life and education Yang was born on 12 November 1964 to parents both educated as surgeons. He spent ...

– LenovoMiguel Helft
"In pursuit of Innovation, a milestone for Lenovo"
''Fortune.com'', May 2, 2014 * 2015 – Clayton M. Christensen – Harvard Business School * 2015 –

Robert A. Lutz Robert Anthony Lutz (born February 12, 1932) is a Swiss-American automotive executive. He served as a top leader of all of the United States Big Three automobile manufacturers, having been in succession executive vice president (and board member ...

– General Motors Company * 2016 – John Chambers – Cisco Systems, Inc. * 2017 –

Astro Teller Eric "Astro" Teller (born 29 May 1970) is an American entrepreneur, computer scientist, and author, with expertise in the field of intelligent technology. Early life and education Teller was born in Cambridge, England, and raised in Evanston, ...

– X * 2017 –

Jeff Immelt Jeffrey Robert Immelt (born February 19, 1956) is an American manufacturing executive working as a venture partner at New Enterprise Associates. He previously was the CEO of General Electric from 2001 to 2017, and the CEO of GE's Medical Systems ...

– General Electric * 2018 –

Marillyn Hewson Marillyn Adams Hewson (born December 27, 1953) is an American businesswoman who served as the chairman, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Lockheed Martin from January 2013 to June 2020. Biography Early life and education Hewson wa ...

– Lockheed Martin * 2019 – Ginni Rometty – IBM * 2021 – Jennifer Holmgren, Reinhold Schmieding – Arthrex * 2025 –

Jensen Huang Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang ( zh, t=黃仁勳, poj=N̂g Jîn-hun, hp=Huáng Rénxūn; born February 17, 1963) is a Taiwanese and American businessman, electrical engineer, and philanthropist who is the president, co-founder, and chief executive of ...

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Nvidia Nvidia Corporation ( ) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware. Founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang (president and CEO), Chris Malachowsky, and Curti ...

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