AMBER
The Color for
Resilience
In a world of relentless disruption, the innovators who endure are not simply those with the best ideas. Markets have been upended, industries reimagined, and entire business models challenged overnight. Yet from this pressure, something remarkable has emerged: a generation of leaders and organizations that have grown stronger through every setback.
Resilience is not passive survival. It is active reinvention. Like amber, formed under immense heat and pressure, the most enduring innovations are forged through adversity, turning constraints into catalysts and obstacles into opportunity.
The International Innovation Awards 2026's theme is Forging to Last.
About the Awards
By spearheading the Innovation Revolution, the International Innovation Awards® (IIA) is the most coveted regional recognition programme where it recognises outstanding innovations, and in the process encouraging organisations to continue investing in innovations.
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Service & Solution
Organisation & Culture
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Innovation Leadership*
*by invitation only
Why Participate?
Independent endorsement of your innovation
While innovation on itself may serve to future-proof your organisation, an independent endorsement amplifies both the credibility of the innovation as well as your speed-to-market and acceptance level.
Enhances the lifetime value of your innovation
Most organisations discover that adding a third-party endorsement enhances the lifetime value and longetivity of their innovation by many folds. This translates to a significantly higher return on investment and future-proofing your innovation.
Publicity and promotion
Through our global PR campaign, and localised publicity blitz, your winning innovation will be read or seen by potentially millions of users and consumers. Many organisations leverage on this to supplement their own branding and promotional effort for 360-degree coverage of target audience.
Reward your innovation team
No innovation works in a silo. It’s always a team effort. Winning the International Innovation Award is a direct affirmation of that effort; and even if you do not win, the collective teamwork put into submission goes far in aligning your team’s goal.
Stronger price elasticity
Winners have realised that receiving the Award often translate into better pricing as customers are less price sensitive when purchasing an award-winning innovation.
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Past Winners
