Real Innovation Awards 2017 - Winners

Real innovation takes grit, perseverance and a bit of luck. MT has once again teamed up with London Business School to celebrate the companies and people who have truly disrupted their markets.

The awards were designed to highlight and celebrate the real, messy business of innovation – a process that’s a world away from what most people imagine it to be.

Innovation is the wellspring of change. Without a constant supply of clever, creative and fresh ways of doing things, the engine of economic progress would grind to a halt.

Other awards for innovation tend to describe a simplified, sanitised and inaccurate view of the process. Yes, whizzy new products and visionary leadership are important, but they aren’t the whole story: real innovation is messy, uncertain and serendipitous. And so the Real Innovation Awards were born – an award scheme designed to showcase the authentic, haphazard and exciting business of real innovation and to identify and celebrate those people and organisations who exemplify the way it really works.