…did you come to develop electroluminescent flat panel displays in 1974? 1970-1980 was the second phase of industrialization in Finland – from heavy industry towards high technology. Big companies diversified into new business areas like electronics. Nokia is a good example; Instrumentarium, an import company for medical instrumentation, had started with a few own products and was looking for competitiveness with proprietary technology. The path fr…
…innovations on society, even on humanity at large. The next Millennium Technology Prize will be awarded on 22 May 2018….
…ntion of the blue LED light also earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014. In connection with work for his doctoral thesis, Pyry Kivisaari worked as part of Nakamura’s research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also has a joint publication with Nakamura from that time. Today, he is advancing research into photonics, the science of light generation, as an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher at Aalto University. Th…
…being awarded for the seventh time since the award was first conferred in 2004 and it is worth one million euros. Biochemical engineer Frances Arnold receives the 2016 Millennium Technology Prize in recognition of her discoveries that launched the field of ‘directed evolution’, which mimics natural evolution to create new and better proteins in the laboratory. This technology uses the power of biology and evolution to solve many important problems…
