The Stationers’ Company announces dates as entries open for the 2023 Stationers’ Innovation Excellence Awards
'From Warships to Washing Machines' is how the Stationers' Company summed up the achievement of the overall winner of the most recent Innovation Excellence Awards, as it launches this years' Awards and announces entries are now open for the 2023 Awards, with a closing date of 21 April.
Moving the in-person Awards later in the year proved a popular decision. For 2023 the Awards ceremony will be on 25th September and the Company looks forward to hosting another outstanding group of dynamic innovators then.
Entries are encouraged from across the spectrum of businesses that make up the £70bn communications and content industries - including global, SME and non-profit businesses with start-ups again welcomed in a specialist category. The Awards remain free to enter, and entrants do not have to be members of the Stationers' Company - they are open to all.
Including journalism, newspaper & magazine publishing; packaging; paper making & paper converting; printing; trade, academic & information publishing; fine stationers, greeting cards & office products and related intellectual property, archival, and digital born businesses - all are welcome to submit entries in these inclusive Awards.
Entries can be made in more than one of the six categories- and an overall 'Innovator of the Year' is chosen from the winners of each category. Entries will close at 7pm on Friday 21 April. The entry form is here https://www.stationers.org/siea-entry Award categories are:
- Business Process
- Communications and Marketing
- Customer Experience
- Product Design
- Service Development
- Start-ups
Judges are keen to see applications that focus on novel products, services or business processes that have a positive financial and/or social impact on customers and on the environment. Judging criteria are available here https://www.stationers.org/assets/Judging-Criteria-for-the-2023-Awards_c4a4.pdf