Edison Awards

Edison Awards is an American company that runs an annual competition honoring excellence in innovation in a broad range of categories.

Edison Awards
Awarded for	Honoring excellence in new product and service development, marketing, human-centered design and innovation
Country	United States
First award	1987
Website	http://www.edisonawards.com/

Company

Elon Musk at the 2014 Edison Awards

The Edison Awards were established by the American Marketing Association in 1987 and has been an independent enterprise since 2008.^[1]

Awards

The Edison Awards are named after the inventor Thomas Edison. They honor innovations in product and service development, marketing and human-centered design.^[2] Categories range from green technology to medical breakthroughs.^[3] Entrants must meet strict innovation criteria and competencies as defined in the book Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor (Gelb & Caldicott 2007).^[1] The Edison Awards Steering Committee reviews nominations; the finalists are then voted on by a large panel drawn from business professionals, scientists and academia.^[4] Entries are judged based on societal impact, creativity and marketplace success.^[3] In 2013, there were 14 categories and 38 sub-categories, with 131 award recipients.^[5]

Recipients

Past recipients of the Edison Achievement Award include:

• 1991 – Herb Baum – Campbell Soup Co.^[6]
• 1991 – Frank Perdue – Perdue Farms
• 1992 – William McGowan – MCI Corporation
• 1993 – J. Willard Marriott, Jr. – Marriott International
• 1993 – Jay Van Andel – Amway Corporation
• 1993 – Raymond W. Smith – Bell Atlantic
• 1993 – Rich DeVos – Amway Corporation
• 1994 – Bert C. Roberts – MCI Corporation
• 1994 – H. John Greeniaus – Nabisco, Inc.
• 1995 – Arthur Martinez – Sears, Roebuck & Co.
• 1995 – Robert Palmer – Digital Corporation
• 1996 – Douglas Ivester – Coca-Cola Company
• 1996 – Nolan D. Archibald – Black & Decker
• 1997 – Reuben Mark – Colgate-Palmolive
• 1997 – Martha Stewart – MSL Omnimedia
• 1999 – Dale Morrison – Campbell Soup Co.
• 1999 – Ted Turner – Time Warner
• 2009 – David M. Kelley – IDEO
• 2009 – Susan Desmond-Hellmann – Genentech
• 2010 – A.G. Lafley – Procter & Gamble
• 2010 – Susan Hockfield – MIT
• 2011 – Alan Mulally – Ford Motor Company
• 2011 – John S. Hendricks – Discovery Communications
• 2012 – Chris Anderson – TED
• 2012 – Steve Jobs – Apple, Inc.
• 2013 – Paul E. Jacobs – Qualcomm
• 2014 – Elon Musk – Tesla, SpaceX^[4]
• 2014 – Yang Yuanqing – Lenovo^[7]
• 2015 – Clayton M. Christensen – Harvard Business School
• 2015 – Robert A. Lutz – General Motors Company
• 2016 – John Chambers – Cisco Systems, Inc.
• 2017 – Astro Teller – GoogleX
• 2017 – Jeff Immelt – General Electric
• 2018 – Marillyn Hewson – Lockheed Martin
• 2019 – Ginni Rometty – IBM
• 2021 – Jennifer Holmgren, Reinhold Schmieding – Arthrex
• 2022 – Carmichael Roberts – Material Impact / Breakthrough Energy Ventures
• 2022 – Bracken Darrell – Logitech
• 2023 – Sir Jonathan Ive – LoveFrom
• 2023 – Patrick Gelsinger – Intel
• 2024 – Laurie Leshin – Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
• 2024 – Gwynne Shotwell – SpaceX
• 2025 – Michael M. Crow – Arizona State University
• 2025 – Jensen Huang – Nvidia