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PROF. ABDULLA AL HAWAJ AWARD FOR INVENTION
Prof. Abdulla Yusuf Al Hawaj Award For Invention will be presented annually by Ahlia University, Bahrain. It recognises outstanding inventors from the Middle east, who have made an exceptional contribution to social development, technological progress and economic growth.
The awards are presented in the categories: “Industry”, “Research”, “Mobiles applications“.
About
Prof. Abdulla Y. Al-Hawaj
Dr. Abdulla Y. Al-Hawaj, the Founding President of Ahlia University, ranks in the top echelon of educational leaders in the Arabian Gulf. His incumbency in numerous managerial posts in prestigious organizations associated with educational development at a national level, his academic accolades from esteemed institutions, attests to Dr. AlHawaj’s being in the vanguard of higher educational reform in the Kingdom of Bahrain. In recognition of Dr. Al-Hawaj’s trail blazing contributions in the sphere of educational advancement in the Kingdom of Bahrain, he was appointed — by royal decree – as a member of the Supreme Committee for the Kingdom National Charter, in which he serves as the coordinator of its Educational Committee. Among his portfolio of managerial responsibilities is his membership in Higher Educational. Moreover, Dr. AlHawaj, since 2001, has served as the President of the Bahrain Association for Academics. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Manchester (UK) and a B.Sc. (Hon.) in Mathematics from the University of Kuwait.
Dr. Al-Hawaj launched his distinguished academic career at the University of Bahrain, in which he held the successive posts of Dean of Student Affairs, Chairman of the Department of Computer Sciences, and Chairman of the Department of Mathematics. He attained the rank of Professor of Mathematics at the University of Bahrain and continued to serve the University of Bahrain in that capacity until 2005. Dr. Al-Hawaj’s profound contributions to the fields of Mathematics, Computer Sciences, and Education through numerous research papers, books, media debates, and public discussions are vast. His unstinting dynamism, paradigm-shattering innovation and superlative achievement in the academic and social arena have accorded him a number of prestigious awards and honorariums.
Dr. Al-Hawaj has extensive experience in leading large multi-dimensional institutions. His signature use of pragmatic and innovative thinking in solving complex educational and business issues stems from his strong managerial and educational background. He is widely acclaimed as a pioneering architect of the private university in the Arabian Gulf and a leading proponent of excellence in Higher Education in the whole of the Middle East. Recently, he was elected as the President of the Association of Private Universities in the GCC countries and the Chairman of the Executive Office of The Association of Arab Private Institutions for Higher Education.
The Award
Prof. Abdulla Yusuf Al Hawaj Award for Invention
Prof. Abdulla Yusuf Al Hawaj Award will be presented annually by Ahlia University, Bahrain. It recognises outstanding inventors from the Middle east, who have made an exceptional contribution to social development, technological progress and economic growth.
The awards are presented in the categories: “Industry”, “Research”, “Mobiles applications“.
The awards are presented in the categories
Prof. Abdulla Yusuf Al Hawaj Award will be presented annually by Ahlia University, Bahrain. It recognises outstanding inventors from the Middle east, who have made an exceptional contribution to social development, technological progress and economic growth.
Industrial
Technology
Industrial Technology is the use of engineering and manufacturing technology to make production faster, simpler and more efficient.
Futurists
Studies
Future studies, futures research or futurology, is the systematic, interdisciplinary and holistic study of social and technological.
Mobiles
Applications
A mobile application, most commonly referred to as an app, is a type of application software designed to run on a mobile device.
about
The Award
Opportunity, conception, method, and development
In the true spirit of Prof. Abdulla Yusuf Al Hawaj, we are looking for innovations that not only address a need and solve a problem but also seize an opportunity and create a new market or industry. We are interested in the overall method and development of the concept and opportunity. We would like to understand how discovery, collaboration, iteration, prototyping, etc. contributed to the conception and development of the innovation as it progressed from genesis to design and implementation.
Need/desire, differentiation, cost, and advantage
We would like to understand how the innovation satisfies an existing need or desire or creates a new need that is not currently available in the market. We are seeking evidence for how the offering is different and whether it has distinct, game changing advantages over any alternatives. We also want to evaluate its unique value proposition, the relationship between its cost and benefits and its economic desirability.
Message, engagement, availability, and achievement
We would like to understand how the message and broader story of the innovation is communicated in clear and compelling ways. We are looking for interesting examples of how consumers have been engaged and how the offering has been delivered and made available to the marketplace. Finally, we are interested in how the value proposition of the offering is being achieved, fulfilled and validated in the marketplace.
Sustainability, social responsibility, and potential
Prof. Abdulla Yusuf Al Hawaj devoutly believed that real innovation not only demonstrated commercial success but also sustained sensitivity to broader implications. We would like to understand the immediate and longer term impact the innovation has on the environment and society as a whole. We are also interested in how the offering may establish a vision or be the basis of a larger system or platform of innovations and how it might be an inspiration to future innovation and innovators.
JUDGING COMMITTEE
All completed nominations will be reviewed by the members of the Prof. Abdulla Yusuf Al Hawaj Awards Steering Committee as well as an ad hoc panel of professionals, all of whom are senior executives with diverse marketing, scientific and business backgrounds who are recognized experts in their fields.
Dr Bola Olabisi
Bola Olabisi is founder of GWIIN, a UK based organisation set up in 1998 mainly to research, develop & encourage the growth and emergence of women entrepreneurship amongst inventors and innovators. GWIIN connects with women from across the globe with a special focus on creative, inventive, innovative skills & abilities. GWIIN works in partnership with The Accelerator, a part of The London Metropolitan University in the delivery of knowledge transfer concepts. GWIIN holds regular Conferences, Exhibition & Award ceremonies and other events annually and bi-annually in the UK, Europe and across the globe, in recognition and celebration of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of the women who have created, invented or brought about the innovation of novel products & unique services. Many of our members have gone on to become very successful with their products & services. Bola is recognised as one of the most outstanding women globally.
Prof.Aynampudi Subbarao
Prof. Aynampudi Subbarao is the president of the Indian Innovators Association for more than 18 years. Furthermore, he has valuable experiences in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, and has participated in many international innovation festivals as a judge and chairman of the jury, and has participated in international events in the past years as a representative of the International Federation of Inventors’ Association. By having him as IFIA’s Academic Director, we can use his professional experience and academic qualification, such as being a professor in IIT, his Presidency in Indian Innovators Association, his Certificate from Harvard University, and his Ph.D. in Project Management in our favor.
Elinora inga sigurdardottir
President of the Icelandic Inventors association she has been in the planning committee for the Icelandic invention competition for school children and a member in the international committee for the association of Icelandic women entrepreneurs FKA.
Elinora Inga Sigurdardottir has been in the administration for QUIN which is a network of women inventors in the Nordic and Baltic countries organizing and designing a website for QUIN where women could advertise their products and get in contact with other inventive women.
Dr. Hayleigh Bosher
Dr Hayleigh Bosher is Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at Brunel University and Book Review Editor for the IPKat blog. She is also a Visiting Lecturer in IP at the University of the Arts London (UAL) and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Intellectual Property, Policy and Management. She holds a PhD in Copyright Law from Bournemouth University, under the Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship Award.
