GIMI Innovation Awards 2025

The Global Innovation Management Institute (GIMI), our partner, has officially opened the call for applications for the 2025 GIMI Innovation Awards! 

Building on the incredible success of last year’s edition, this year’s awards continue to celebrate outstanding innovators like yourself across 10 categories. The aim is to recognize the best innovators across diverse sectors and fields.

Here are the 10 categories:

Organizational Awards:

• Most Innovative Company – This category recognizes a private sector organization tha thas pioneered breakthrough innovations by introducing novel ideas or solutions, creating a significant impact on its industry or society.
• Most Innovative Government Entity – This category recognizes a public sector organization that has transformed the public sector by implementing innovative policies, initiatives, or programs.
• Most Innovative Project – Private Sector – This category recognizes aninnovation project ideated, incubated and implemented by a private sector company.
• Most Innovative Project – Public Sector – This category recognizes an innovation project ideated, incubated and implemented by public sector entities that have demonstrated profound impact.
• Most Innovative Project – Social Sector/Non-Profit – This category recognizes aproject in the social sector that demonstrates exceptional creativity, and sustainability in addressing pressing social challenges.
• Best Startup – This category recognizes a startup that demonstrates great potential through its innovative solution, creativity in addressing market needs, and scalable business model.
• Best Innovation Framework – This category recognizes the best methodologies or frameworks for innovation management, including partnership programs, processes, and strategy.
• Best Innovation Hub (Science/Research/Tech Parks, Incubators, Accelerators) – This category recognizes outstanding measurable impact by an innovation hub/sciencepark/centers/accelerators and incubators in promoting innovation.

Individual Awards:

• Innovator of the Year Award – This category recognizes chief innovation officers, innovation managers or innovators in other roles inside a company who showcase all innovators mindset traits and provide evidence of being catalysts for change.
• The Ronald Jonash Innovation Lifetime Achievement Award

The application deadline is May 16th, and the awards ceremony will take place in September in Rome. You can visit the page and learn more about the awards here.

Apply here.