Hot news for UK entrepreneurs: audience The Economic Innovator of the Year Awards 2024, in partnership with Investec Wealth & Investment (UK), is now accepting entries. As always, we’d like to hear from high-growth businesses in all sectors and regions of the UK. We are also delighted to welcome back our sponsor, Investec Wealth and Investment (UK). The firm recently merged with Rathbones Group Ltd to become one of the UK’s leading discretionary asset managers. The combined business has broad influence among UK asset managers and is deeply committed to entrepreneurship.
This is the seventh year of our celebration of Britain’s most innovative companies. It is very encouraging to see the number and range of entries increasing year on year. The total number of applications since 2018 is expected to exceed 1,000 in 2024.
As always, entries for 2024 will be judged across six regions across London and the South East. Midlands; Northeast. Scotland and Northern Ireland. Southwest. and west and northwest. Within each of these regions, he will be shortlisted in his two categories: ‘Breakthrough’ participants with a total revenue of less than £3m in the previous financial year, and ‘Scale-up’ participants with an annual revenue of more than £3m. Select. .
We will select the overall Economic Innovator of the Year from the regional finalists and award a special award for Excellence in Sustainability. We will also select a new category, “One to Watch,” from among the smaller entries that have just passed the commercialization criteria.
Last year, our award-winning projects ranged from detecting toxic gases to using laptops to teach in prisons. From recycled plastics for road paving to retail sporting goods.
The overall winner was ComplyAdvantage, a pioneer in the use of AI in financial crime detection. And our sustainability champion was Graphene Innovations Manchester.
It is this extraordinary diversity that makes our Economic Innovators Award so challenging for our expert judges. However, all of our potential winners share a similar passion for perfecting products and services, positively contributing to society, and achieving national and international scale.
Even in these uncertain economic times, their optimism is contagious. And we’re delighted to spotlight them at our gala awards event in November. The overall winner will also enjoy an advertising campaign around the world. audience‘s print and digital platforms to a value of £20,000.
If you’re an innovative, entrepreneur-led commercial company looking to change the market, nominate us today using our simple online entry form. If you are a customer, investor, or fan of a venture that fits this description, please encourage them to join. audience and Investec Wealth & Investment (UK) look forward to celebrating your future successes.
Apply now: spectator.co.uk/innovator
