The ceremony was held on the 4th of December to reward the winners of the 11th edition of the annual initiative organised by the Commerce Department, which is part of the Ministry for the Economy and Industry. This initiative is the "Malta Intellectual Property Awards 2020".
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 around €50,000 was distributed in prizes. It is gratifying, particularly given the circumstances in which we are living, that for this edition we had a record number of applications with high-level projects with a range of initiatives in the field of health, engineering , digital arts, culture and arts, medical research and technology education.
The winners of the "Malta Intellectual Property Award 2020" were:
Category – Intellectual Property for Creative Initiative Award
Winner
‘Temi: Temi u d-Deni Irqiq - An Animated Feature Film’ – Neil Zammit and Nicholas Grima
Runner-up
‘3 XEWQAT’ – Write Deal Association
Category – Intellectual Property for Scientific Initiative Award
Winner
‘Development of a Gasless approach to Trans-Oral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy via a Vestibular Approach (TOETVA)’ – Dr Christian Camenzuli
Runner-up
‘Automatic Aerodrome Taxiway Line Detection and Cross-Track Error Estimation using Computer Vision Techniques’ – Dr. Inġ. Jason Gauci
Category: Intellectual Property for Technological Initiative Award
Winner
‘A multitrophic polyculture food production system for the Islands of Malta’ – Pierre Axiaq
Runner-up
‘ReStone’ – Prof. Spiridione Buħaġiar and Perit Franco E. Montesin
Category – Intellectual Property – Emergent Innovator: age between 16 and 30 years for Technological Initiative
Winner
‘Multi-Direction Auxetic Expanding Systems’ – James N. Grima-Cornish
Category – Intellectual Property Award – Emergent Innovator: 31 years old and over for Scientific Initiative
Winner
‘PHASE 1 (PH1)’ – Fabian Borg
Category – Intellectual Property Award – Emergent Innovator: 31 years old and over for Technological Initiative
Winner
‘GainChanger Overwatch’ – Simon Bonello
Page updated on the 28th December, 2020