INNOVIC - Next Big Thing Award - Australia's National Invention and Innovation Awards

Next Big Thing Award™

Visit the Next Big Thing Award™ website for more information.

This prestigious annual event is a nation-wide competition to find, showcase and award leading-edge new Australian innovations, new ideas with the potential to become the 'next big thing'.

2008 Winners receive over $50,000 in cash and prizes plus valuable media exposure.

An Exhibition of the finalists' innovations will be held at the Melbourne Museum between 14 May and 22 June 2008.
Accompanying activities will include a Young Entrepreneurs' Week, to stimulate and encourage the next generation of innovative Australians.

We thank the many innovators nation-wide who submitted entries for INNOVIC’s Next Big Thing Award™ 2008. The applications were of a high calibre and we congratulate them all. It was a difficult task but our judges have now selected the 21 finalists. They are as follows:

E-Crete
Laddersmart
MMCall
Intelligent plastic sensors
Low Noise Amplifier
QuietWave
FANAWAY

EZY-AS
Tube Terminator
Accuball
Rumba Mobile Mail
Multimodal Face Recognition
Shadow Caddy
Cone-Head liner for Helmets

Surgical Drilling Simulator
Verso Measuring Lid
Triples & Modular Table Tennis
Safe Turn Indicator for Cyclists
S*A*T*R
Snapit Ampoule Opener
SIMPAD™

Previous Next Big Thing Award winners include, V-Focus, a catheter system that delivers and recycles sensitive cardiac medication directly to the beating heart of a conscious patient, mHITs, a free SMS payment and e-wallet system and ClinchA, a pneumatic device for tying concrete reinforcement bars together.