|
Home :. Company News
NikkeiBP Announces Three Winners of the Second "Japan Innovators
Award"
Tokyo -- November 13, 2003 -- Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. has
announced the winners of its second Japan Innovators Award. Established in
year 2002, the award aims to revitalize the staggering Japanese economy by
shedding light on unique and innovative individuals, who have or have the
potential to breath new life into the Japanese industry. Nominations were made
from diversified fields regardless of specialties or professions. The
commendation ceremony will be held on November 28 in Tokyo to award the
winners a certificate of commendation and a prize.
The winners are as follows:
Winners for the Grand Prize
Dr. Ken Sakamura (Professor of the University of Tokyo)
Dr. Sumio Iijima (Senior Research Fellow at NEC Corp.)
Winner for the Excellence Award
Mr. Shinjiro Yamada (President and CEO, INCS Inc.)
Apart from receiving nominations from the screening committee chaired by
Professor Ikujiro Nonaka (Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy,
Hitotsubashi University), staff writers of Nikkei BP's vertical publications
nominated candidates deemed as industry innovators. Approximately two
hundred candidates were selected from the nominees at the initial screening, and
were narrowed down to eighteen for the final screening.
The double Grand Prize went to Tokyo University Professor Ken Sakamura and
NEC's Senior Research Fellow Sumio Iijima. Dr. Sakamura was awarded the
Prize for his invention of an embedded operating system "TRON (The Realtime
Operating System Nucleus)," which contributed greatly to the advancement of
the networked society. TRON is an open architecture OS, and has become an
indispensable infrastructure for electronics and automobile industries. The
annual production of TRON microprocessors exceeds five billion, making it
obvious that TRON has indeed become a de facto global standard for the
software industry. Dr. Iijima was awarded the Prize for his pioneering
discovery of the structure of carbon nanotubes, one of the hottest materials now
in the field of nanotechnology. Carbon nanotubes is said to be many times
stronger than steel and weighs less than half of aluminum. That being the
case, the material is full to the brim with expectations for its extensive practical
applications.
The Excellence Award went to Mr. Shinjiro Yamada, President & CEO of
INCS, Inc. for his achievements in bringing innovation to the manufacturing
frontlines. His company automated the tooling production system by
capitalizing on IT, whereby drastically reducing the production lead-time. Mr.
Yamada is also an active investor engaged in investment activities for revitalizing
the Japanese tooling industry.
For further details, please contact:
International Office
phone: +813-5210-8502
fax: +813-5210-8119
http://www.nikkeibp.com
e-mail: info@nikkeibp.com
• COMPANY NEWS ARCHIVE
(January 2003 ~ )
• COMPANY NEWS ARCHIVE
(January 2002 ~ )
• COMPANY NEWS ARCHIVE
(January 2001 ~ )
|
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that reflect the
company's current views with respect to future events and business performance.
Those forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties
and the company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed in
the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among
other factors, general business and economic conditions, rapid or unexpected
changes in technologies, cancellation or delay of customer orders.
|
|
About NikkeiBP
Nikkei Business Publications is part of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun group, the world's largest
group of companies providing mainly business and financial information for most Japan's decision
makers. Covering a wide variety of specialized areas including business, computer, electronics,
construction, services
and medicine, Nikkei Business Publications is the number one business publisher in Japan. As of November 13,
we publish 44 magazines and 3 newsletters, reaching a combined total readership of over 2.6 million.
|
