Innovator of the Year Awards: The winners

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🗓️ 1 December 2024

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Summary

On November 7th, the finalists for the 2024 Innovator of the Year Awards joined The Spectator and Rathbones at a gala evening in central London. There, they found out the regional and category winners for this year's awards. In this episode, our business editor Martin Vander Weyer, one of the founders of the awards, announces the winners for listeners who've followed our previous episodes in this year's series.

If you missed any of the discussion, you can catch up at the links below:
AI, gene therapy and challenges of the NHS – Britain’s health Innovators of the Year
Carbon capture, vertical farming and coding for girls – Britain’s environmental and social purpose Innovators of the Year
Wonky fruits, supplements for pets and smart walking sticks – Britain’s consumer Innovators of the Year
AI studios, ethical advertising and software for defence – Britain’s business services Innovator of the Year
Bespoke batteries, recyclable electronics and drone ports – Britain’s manufacturing and engineering Innovators of the Year

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0:00.0	Welcome to this, the last podcast in our series of Spectator podcasts for 2024 celebrating the
0:16.6	finalists in the Spectator Economic Innovator of the Year awards.
0:22.2	I'm Martin Van der Weir.
0:23.7	I'm the business editor of the Spectator, and I'm very proud to be one of the founders of
0:29.0	these awards, which are now in their seventh year.
0:32.7	And I'd like to say that they've grown not only in number of entries, but I think in the
0:39.0	kudos and attention that they bring to our finalists and our winners.
0:44.3	So we're very proud of these awards.
0:47.4	They are done in partnership with Rathbones, one of the UK's leading wealth management firms, which joins with us in celebrating
0:56.8	the passion, the creativity of British entrepreneurs. Some 267 entries this year were narrowed down
1:07.8	by our judges to around 50 finalists from all across the United Kingdom.
1:13.7	We met them at judging lunches around the country, which are always great fun, very lively events.
1:21.2	And the finalists then gathered with us in London for a gala dinner in early November to find out who would be named as the
1:30.5	innovators of the year. The finalists are split into regional awards in six regions and the culmination
1:38.3	of the gala event is the big three awards that we give. One for excellence in sustainability, one, a new category
1:48.0	this year, the innovator to watch, and finally the overall economic innovator of the year.
1:55.5	So I'm going to take you through all of that in this brief podcast. Our businesses come from across every sector you can think of.
2:04.8	So we have previously made a set of podcasts where we talk about the finalists by sector rather than by region.
2:13.0	So on to the awards ceremony. We were very pleased to welcome the spectator's relatively new editor,
2:19.7	Michael Gove, who's been with us for a couple of months now.
2:23.1	He joined us to help present the awards, and here's a snippet of what he had to say to the finalists.
2:30.3	We know that growth, that transformation, that human flourishing doesn't come about as a result of bureaucratic intervention,
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