Hermes Awards for InnovationHonouring

humanistic innovations

Rencontre Nationale

des Directeurs de l’Innovation

Hermes Awards for InnovationThese awards are presented each year by the European Institute for Creative Strategies and Innovation during the National Meeting of Chief Innovation Officers.

The “Hermes Awards for Innovation” recognize companies or organisations which have excelled in integrating the best state of knowledge into products and services offering always more satisfaction to individuals and society.

They are inspired by the Renaissance humanists, for whom man is the measure of all things. It is a time when mankind is the essence of all innovations. Progress and human development are the objectives.

The “Hermes Awards” for Innovation are a distinction of excellence. They result from a multi-criteria analysis. They recognize innovations presenting notable advancement in one of the following creative synthesis domains:-Improvement of the human condition, - Improvement of human relations,-Improvement of life in the city, - Improvement of relation between man and nature

A “Grand Prize”, regrouping all 4 categories, will be granted to the best creative synthesis.

Why Hermes ?

In Greek mythology, Hermes is the god of industrious and realization intelligence. Zeus was impressed by the ingenious, clever, persuasive and quick nature of Hermes since his early years. Apparently, on the day of his birth, before even noon, he had already invented a musical instrument (a lyre), some sport equipment (a racket) and how to make fire.

Hermes is a precocious and multiform innovator. He is, among many others in Greek mythology, associated, to the invention of weight and measures, the olive tree cultivation, the astronomy, the gymnastic or the road signs.

Hermes supports and honours all human ventures and is their mediator to gods. He is also an explorer who loves to undertake new paths. He is a multifaceted god, organizer of the new and disorganizer of the old. He is also the patron of exchanges and contracts, the commerce in general and the protector of the travellers. Finally, he guarantees the free circulation of goods and people, on earth and at sea.

The « Hermes Awards for Innovation » is a reproduction of a statuette by the Musée du Louvrebased on the bicephalous Hermes from Fréjus. This statuette dates back from the August Emperor Era and represents him with a serene and smiling face expressing his maturity. The other side represents the young Dionysos, god of the vine as well as the god of the mystic delirium and inspiration.

This double faceted statuette representing the creation and realization ability, honours the capacity of innovation of those receiving the award.

A rigorous assessment processCompanies and organizations selected for the Hermes awards are identified by the international network of the European Institute for Creative Strategies and Innovation for their apparent excellence on innovation.

After that, their selection for the award comes as a consequence of a rigorous double multicriterion analysis, - one generic, for all Hermes awards, and - an other one dedicated for each category of Hermes award.

No candidacy or application are required to be selected for an Hermes award.

Hermes awards ceremony, Paris, may 25th 2010

2009 Awards

• Grand Prize for the best

creative synthesis- Nintendo, Japan (Wii)

- Oxylane, France (Outdoor & sport)

• Improvement of the human

condition- Carmat, France (Artificial heart)

- Parana Police School/ Senaiof Parana, Brasil (Program

« Design Against Crime »)

• Improvement of human relations- Telélangue, France (Cyberteacher)

- Bic, France (BIC Phone)

• Improvement of the life in the city- Venturi, Monaco (voitures électriques)

2010 Awards

• Grand Prize for the best

creative synthesis

- Mozilla Foundation, USA

(Internet navigator in open source Firefox)

- SEB Group, France (whole range of products)

• Improvement of the human condition- Touch Bionics, UK (artificial hand)

• Improvement of human relations- Dassault Systèmes, France

CAD Catia - PLM)

- Archos (Archos 9 PC tablet)

-Aldebaran Robotics, France

(anthropomorphic robot « Nao »

for assisting people)

• Improvement of life in the city

- City of Helsinki, Finland

(Road-map to the ideal city)

• Human development

- Pan-African e-network, India

(training and education programs

for Africa)

Respect de l’environnement

Dimension

universelle

Ouverture à la Diversité

Capacitéau leadership

Initiative,esprit pionnier,engagement

Bonne

gestion

Création de richesseet d’emplois

Amélioration de la qualité

de vie

favorise l’Autonomie

des personnes

Croissance,développement

Meilleur état de l’art,excellence

scientifique et technique

Développement humain

+

critères

spécifiques

Identification, puis évaluation multicritère

Télélangue et Nintendo, 2009

2011 Awards

• Grand Prize for the best creative synthesis ……- Jacques Perrin, France, Director (Movie « Oceans »)• Improvement of the human conditions………… - Actelion, Switzerland (Drugs issued from bioengineering)

- MediconValley, Denmark and Sweden) (International cluster in biotechnology and pharmacology)

• Improvement of human relations……………… - O3b, international project (Satellite network offeringInternet access to the « Oter 3 billion peoples »)3 -

- Collèges SESI , Paraná State Brésil (Education withinnovation team projects)

• Improvement of live in the city…………….. - City of Barcelone, Spain (General politic of opening up the city to the creation of any origin)

• Improvement of the relation between man and nature……….. - BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH,

Germany (Super Efficiency Portfolio) • Improvement of innovation ecosystems….. - Paypal, USA(universal payement system)

Palmarès 2012 (confidentiel)

• Grand Prize for the best creative synthesis ………………………… - Boeing, USA B 787 Dreamliner

• Innovation for everybody, innovation together…………………… - Honey Bee, India (Innovation roots)

• Best humanistic innovation policy …………………………………... - National Innovation Council (India) Indian Decade of Innovation

• Improvement of the human conditions ……………………………….. - Aravind, India (Eye surgery)

• Improvement of human relations ………………………………………- Positivo, Brasil (Pedagogy

and education

- Kiss Kiss Bank Bank, France

(crowdfinancing)

• Improvement of live in the city ……………………………………... - City of Copenhagen, Denmark

(innovations in the city)

• Improvement of the relation between man and nature ……………… - Tecverde, Brasil (low cost modular

and ecological houses)

Hermes

Awards

Ceremony

2011