RD&I Awards

Creativity, innovation and working collaboratively are three of our most cherished values and sought for behaviors within our R&D community. To encourage and reward them, we have instigated a set of three RD&I Awards which are competed for annually at both the Business Area and AkzoNobel levels within the company. 
 

Creativity AwardsInnovation AwardsCross Link Award
The Creativity Awards are aimed at stimulating and recognizing ideas or technological developments that are still in the conceptual stages. They focus on initiatives that have not yet progressed into products or processes but which are novel, based on good science, with good feasibility and potentially high impact.The Innovation Awards recognize teams that have turned a creative idea into a successful product or process with at least two years of proven and growing profitability. They usually involve teams of researchers working together with other contributing functions such as Marketing and Sales, Supply Chain or Operations. The criteria for the awards are technological excellence; market impact; and sustainability.The AkzoNobel Cross Link Award is made to recognize the performances of individuals or research teams from different businesses within the company working together in which there has been an effective and potentially valuable transfer of technical knowledge from one unit to the other.
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 Creativity Award Innovation Award Cross Link Award

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