In addition to the Leipzig City Prize and the IT Cluster Prize, the innovation of a mass-market, mobile quantum computer by SaxonQ also won the overall IQ Innovation Award Central Germany. Our warmest congratulations! The prizewinner profile of the SMILE supported SaxonQ GmbH can be found here.
At the same time, we are also delighted with the SMILE-supported Leipzig start-up "Inclusive Gaming GmbH", which was only beaten by SaxonQ for second place in the "Information Technology Cluster". They transform visual computer games into audible spaces and thus open up the world of computer games to blind people.
In the energy/environment/solar cluster, ReViSalt GmbH won with its innovative process that solidifies glass faster and in a more resource-efficient way, thus enabling a wide range of applications in addition to technology.
The winner of the local IQ Innovation Award Halle is NorcSi GmbH. The company develops silicon battery anodes for e-mobility that enable higher performance with less critical metals. NorcSi GmbH from Halle (Saale) also impressed in the Automotive cluster.
POLICYCLE Deutschland GmbH from Weißandt-Gölzau in Saxony-Anhalt won this year's Cluster Prize for Chemistry/Plastics. With the help of an energy-saving process, it gives previously unusable films a second life for an industrial circular economy.
The Life Sciences Cluster Award went to Katana Labs from Dresden. The startup was recognized for its AI platform, which analyses millions of tumour cells in seconds and thus reduces the workload of pathology specialists.
The local IQ Innovation Award Magdeburg "Otto von Guericke Award" was won by the team from the Chair of Thermodynamics and Combustion at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg with their reactor for carbon dioxide separation from industrial waste gases.
Source: Europäische Metropolregion Mitteldeutschland
Pictures: Europäische Metropolregion Mitteldeutschland, Stephanie Göbel
