CTO of the year Europe award announced – promoting the importance of technology and innovation in Europe

Today at Industrial Technologies 2014 in Athens, being one of the most important events of the Greek EU-presidency, Spinverse and EIRMA, the European Industrial Research Management Association, have announced that they will launch the quest for Europe's CTO of the Year 2014 in June. The CTO of the Year Award is to highlight the role of the most prominent leaders of technology-based growth, promoting innovations to renew European industry and to upturn competitive advantage."Innovation and the need to rethink technology and societal challenges have been understood in Europe at all levels - however, the role of Chief Technology Officers as key drivers for these within corporations is not sufficiently recognized", believes Michel Judkiewicz, Secretary General of EIRMA. The CTO of the Year award will be launched to highlight the roles of CTOs.The concept is pan-European and as Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission says, "Europe needs ...