The Banbury Innovation Award was inspired by the work of Colin Sanders, a local entrepreneur and inventor whose name lives on in The Colin Sanders Innovation Centre Banbury. (The Centre supports a range of innovative media and technology businesses and is managed by Oxford Innovation). His mixing consoles have achieved world-wide fame in the recording industry allowing producers to automate their settings by computer control. This award seeks to replicate his example by bringing innovative and fresh ideas to light and reward the winners with a trophy, a cash award and the opportunity of developing their idea or business with a superb package of support from a range of local professional services.

Over the past two years, we have had the pleasure of seeing a host of fantastic ideas and met some very inspired people in the search for a winner. In the following pages, you can see how easy it is to enter the Banbury Innovation Award 2008.

Andrew Nesling, 24-7 Box Ltd, Winner of the Banbury Innovation Award 2007 said:

“Winning the Banbury Innovation award has made an amazing difference to the speed with which I have been able to develop the idea, from the publicity & credibility through to the wonderful services offered by local inspirational companies. If you want to give your idea or company a real kick start and work with innovative experts to get results then enter the Banbury Innovation Award, even the selection process is helpful with advice on how to promote your idea, you really have nothing to loose! I had great difficuilty in choosing the prizes that would help my company most; they were all very practical and have helped me enormously in getting 24-7 Box Ltd off to a great start”

Richard Hunter, Hunter Internet & Gaming, Winner of the Banbury Innovation Award 2006

“Hunter Internet & Gaming benefited most from the PR & marketing prizes, also the profiling I got in the local media for winning this award – it was a great boost. It’s always good to win a trophy against tough competition”

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