For more than a decade, the MIT Technology Review magazine looks for the most promising young people in innovation and entrepreneurship, whose projects are able to change the future of technology, to bestow upon them the Innovators Under 35 award (previously known as the TR35 Awards).
The projects cover various sectors such as biotechnology, energy, software, transportation or Internet, among others. Creative and original projects are what is looked for, capable of generating new technologies and existing applications that can solve current problems.
In order to discover the most talented young people and support innovation in their countries of origin, the awards began being hosted in various countries only a few years back, including Spain, Germany, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina.
In 2011 the first came to Spain, whose prize-giving ceremony was held during the EmTech Spain conference, the conference about emerging technologies from MIT Technology Review which was held in October in Málaga with an audience of over 600 people.
The ten young innovators who were winners of the 2011 edition in Spain were:
- Elena de Benavides. Mixed Health Systems for treatment of venous diseases.
- Pau Garcia-Mila. EyeOS, virtual desktop.
- Iker Marcaide. Simpler and more economica iInternational payments
- Javier Aguera. Open source mobile
- Nuria Rodriguez. Capturing CO2 efficiently and economically.
- Damia Tormo. New therapies against aggressive cancers.
- Francisco Javier Cazorla. Multicore computing architectures.
- Teresa Gonzalo. Nanoparticles to curb the spread of HIV in poor areas.
- Xabier Uribe-Etxebarria. Intelligent communication between people and machines.
- Manuel Moliner. synthesis of selective nanomaterials for the industry.
And the winners for the 2012 edition of the Spain awards:
- Ana Díez. Nanotechnology in aeronautic materials.
- David Gascón. Intelligent sensors to transfer information from the real world to the cloud.
- David Horna. "Living" medicines. Technology that aims to solve the problem of mass production of cells, increasing safety and repeatability.
- Gerasimos Konstantatos. Nano-crystals to create high-performance photo-detectors and image sensors.
- Rafael Luque. Nano-particles from waste to obtain valuable chemical and bio-combustible compounds from organic material.
- Juan Moreno. Efficient rehabilitation systems for people with reduced mobility.
- Pablo Orduña.M ass access to a network of remote laboratories for schools and universities.
- Francisco Palao. Artificial intelligence (AI) to solve problems in innovative ways.
