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Biochemical engineer Frances Arnold received the 2016 Millennium Technology Prize in recognition of her discoveries that launched the field of ‘directed evolution’, which mimics natural evolution to create new and…Read more ›

Technology Academy Finland (TAF) has today declared American innovator Frances Arnold as winner of the 2016 Millennium Technology Prize, the prominent award for technological innovations that enhance the quality of people’s lives.Read more ›

Awarded by the Technology Academy Finland (TAF), the Millennium Technology Prize is attracting ever greater attention worldwide. By the end of the 2015 nomination period, a total of 79 innovations were submitted as candidates for the one million euro prize, which will be awarded in May 2016. The number of submissions doubled from the last round (40 nominations in 2013), and the nominations encompassed 114 persons (45 in 2013), an all-time record. This round also included considerably more research teams per innovation than before. The Finnish scientific community was exceptionally active in submitting nominations. The largest number of candidates came from Europe and the United States.Read more ›

On a recent visit to Tampere, Finland, Prof. Shinya Yamanaka, winner of both a Millennium Technology Prize and a Nobel Prize, announced that his team has begun to produce clinical-grade induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. Read more ›

Physicist Stuart Parkin won the 2014 Millennium Technology Prize for his pioneering contribution to the science and application of nano-magnetic material properties, spintronics. His innovations have enabled vast increases in…Read more ›

Technology Academy Finland (TAF) has today declared innovator Prof. Stuart Parkin as winner of the 2014 Millennium Technology Prize, the prominent award for technological innovation. The winner, who follows in the footsteps of past winners such as World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee and ethical stem cell pioneer Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, will be honoured at a ceremony in Helsinki, Finland, on Wednesday 7 May 2014.The prize is worth one million euros.Read more ›

Technology Academy Finland has today announced that two prominent innovators, Linus Torvalds and Dr Shinya Yamanaka, are joint Grand Winners of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize, one of the world’s…Read more ›

2012 Millennium Technology Prize Laureate Shinya Yamanaka - In recognition of his discovery of a new method to develop induced pluripotent stem cells for medical research that do not rely…Read more ›

2012 Millennium Technology Prize Laureate Linus Torvalds - In recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel. https://youtu.be/roHk_2tLqv0Read more ›

The 2010 Millennium Grand Prize Winner Michael Grätzel is the father of third generation dye-sensitized solar cells. Grätzel cells, which promise electricity-generating windows and low-cost solar panels, have just made…Read more ›