Global Awards

The ICI Innovation Awards for Best Business Start-Up is one the world’s most prestigious accolades for cardiovascular Start-Up’s, offering unparalleled clinical and commercial validation from a world-class panel of clinical and commercial experts. Entrants are invited to pitch their idea, face to face, to Judges who then quiz them on the clinical and commercial opportunity. The panel of Judges determine the winner based on three principal criteria: The impact on novelty; impact on patientcare; and the business potential.

The ICI Innovation Awards are run in association with the “Innovations in CardiovascularInterventions” (ICI) Meeting which takes place in December in Tel Aviv in Israel (see www.icimeeting.com) and attracts applications from 22 countries around the world including the USA, UK, Russia, Australia, and India.

The winner of the most recent ICI Award was a British company, Sky Medical Ltd, for their device geko™, a non-invasive method to prevent deep vein thrombosis.

“We are honoured to have won this prestigious Award, judged by some of the world’s foremost experts in the field.
This will help increase our visibility to the clinical world and speed up adoption of this important technology to improve patient care”.
Bernard Ross, CEO of Sky Medical Technology Limited.