The H. Bruce Russell Global Innovator's Award is CoreNet Global's ultimate and most prestigious award. Beginning in 2008, this award is elevated to an even higher plane, as it recognizes innovation at the highest level. Instead of accepting nominations for this award, nominees will be selected by a panel of judges from submissions to the three awards in the Global Awards Program which demonstrate true innovation:

Innovation is defined as an activity or initiative which brings about a paradigm shift in the way business is done in a rapidly globalizing economy. It reduces a new concept to practice and makes it a commercial success. It concerns the search for and the discovery, experimentation, development, imitation and adoption of new products, processes and organizational set-ups.

Finalists for the award will present their cases to a panel of judges at Harvard University in the summer, as has been done traditionally. The winners of the H. Bruce Russell Global Innovator's Awards will be announced at the Fall North American Summit.

Contact: Jennie Lazarus, jlazarus@corenetglobal.org