Global Indus Technovator Awards 2006
Ten Indian Innovators and entrepreneurs were honored at the annual Global Indus Technovator Awards 2006, organized by Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Indian Business Club (IBC). Instated in 2003, these annual awards recognize and felicitate inspirational young innovators who have made outstanding contributions to their respective technological fields and provided practical value.

This year’s recipients were from the areas of Biotechnology/ Medicine / Healthcare, Materials and devices, Information, technology, and Grassroots Technology, Energy.

A student-run organization chaired by graduate students at MIT, the IBC was established in 2002 as an initiative of Sangam, the Indian student’s organization at MIT. They organized the Tech award with an intention to promote the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation among talented and aspiring technologists -academia or industry- of ‘Indus’ origin (South Asian origin) over the globe.

This years awardees first went through a screening committee that comprised of doctoral and post-doctoral students (at MIT and other Boston Universities) and professionals working in the Greater Boston area. They were then judged by eminent researchers, and prominent personalities in the industry and venture capitalist arenas including S. Ramadorai -CEO, Tata Consultancy Services; -Director of Harvard Partners Center for Genetics Genomics Professor, Harvard Medical School, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw- Founder, Chairman and Managing Director, Biocon Group of Companies and Motorola Labs Director, Mobile Platforms, Applications Research Center among others.

All of this year’s recipients were PhD holders and among the best in their own domain. The IBC received close to 120 nominations for the previous year and the number is expected to grow.