Malta Intellectual Property Award 2023

Awards Ceremony

The ceremony was held to reward the winners of the 14th edition of the annual initiative organised by the Commerce Department, which is part of the Ministry for the Economy, European Funds and Lands. This initiative is the “Malta Intellectual Property Awards 2023”.

The Malta Intellectual Property Awards are aimed at promoting the creation of Intellectual Property in Malta and recognizes both innovative projects originating from people who are fairly new in their field and of those made by people of experience in the creative, scientific and technological sector.

This year, more than €50,000 were distributed in prizes. It is gratifying that for this edition we had a high-level of projects with a range of initiatives in the field of health, engineering, digital art, medical research and education.

The winners of the “Malta Intellectual Property Award 2023” were:

Category – Intellectual Property for Creative Initiative Award

Winner

‘ARCHIPALS’ – Mr Zack Ritchie

Runner-up

‘FB Lightning Mark 2’ – Mr Fabian Borg

Category – Intellectual Property for Scientific Initiative Award

Winner

‘Redefining Material Science – The Revolution in Auxetic Foam Production Method for Industry-Wide Disruption and its Application for Sustainable Mattress Production’ – Dr Keith Mario Azzopardi obo Smart Materials Limited

Runner-up

‘Advancing Bacterial Taxonomy with Species-Level Precision through Innovative 16S Amplification Method’ – The Bioarte Ltd

Category: Intellectual Property for Technological Initiative Award

Winner

‘Drywise – Quality Assurance Machine for industrial 3D printing’ – Thought3D Limited

Runner-up

‘A Smart Wearable Device for Supporting Children with Cerebral Palsy (DigiCLAP)’ – Prof. Ing. Philip Farrugia

Category – Intellectual Property – Emergent Innovator: age between 16 and 30 years for Creative Initiative

Winner

‘Contemporary Maltese Cross Pendant’ – Ms Tara Lois Mansell

Category – Intellectual Property – Emergent Innovator: age between 31 years and over for Creative Initiative

Winner

‘Wanderer’s Companion – Portrait Sticker Book’ – Ms Fleur Sciortino and Ms Chelsea Sciortino

Category – Intellectual Property Award – Emergent Innovator: age between 16 and 30 years for Technological Initiative

Winner

‘WagsUnite. We bring people – and dogs – together, to find their crowd and make long-lasting’ – Ms Justine Bezzina

Category – Intellectual Property Award – Emergent Innovator: 31 years old and over for Technological Initiative

Winner

‘Developing AI and Machine Learning algorithms for flight data monitoring (SmartFDM)’ – Dr Robert Camilleri, Dr Gianluca Valentino, Mr Sameer Kumar Jasra and Captain Alan Muscat

Page updated on the 11^th December, 2023