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FOW Awards for Innovation 2009 - call for submissions

03 April 2009

FOW’s awards in 2009 will recognise innovation. Judged by an authoritative panel of industry experts, each award will be for a specific project, deal, product or initiative during the year. Find out here how to nominate your own or someone else's initiative for an award.

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Sometimes in the present climate it can seem hard to celebrate innovation – the word has almost become taboo in some circles. But FOW believes that innovative does not have to mean dangerous.

Innovation is needed to enable markets to serve the economy better and more safely – and the derivative industry has always been at the leading edge of forming new products, markets and technologies.

For that reason, FOW’s awards in 2009 will recognise innovation. Judged by an authoritative panel of industry experts, each award will be for a specific action or innovation during the year that has solved a problem creatively, opened up new possibilities, or changed the way participants approach the...


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