To celebrate World Intellectual Property Day 2012, the Intellectual Property Office Business Outreach Team has created a shortlist of some of the most well known and successful contemporary British ‘Visionary Innovators’.
The list contains famous names from the world of television, music, art, design, business and science, all of whom have achieved considerable success or displayed ‘visionary’ behaviour in spotting ‘The Next Big Thing’, or developed innovate products, services or designs never seen before.
IPO invites you to vote for your favorite contemporary British Visionary Innovator (1 vote only). You can also opt to write-in a name as your favorite when you go to the voting page.
Votes can be cast from Tuesday 17 April at 9am and ends Tuesday 24 April at 5pm.
The person with the most votes will be announced on World Intellectual Property Day 2012 (26 April).
British Visionary Innovator nominees:
• Sir Jonathon Ive: Designer. Achievements / Famous for: Designer of multiple iconic award winning Apple Inc. products. Fact: The Guardian named Sir Jonothon Ive as the ‘Inventor of the Decade’ in 2009, and he holds over 600 design patents in his name.
• Sir Norman Foster
• James Goodfellow OBE
• Michael Aldrich
• Sir James Dyson
• Sir Tim Berners- Lee
• J K Rowling OBE
• Simon Cowell
• Banksy
• Sir Ian Wilmut
Cast your vote now right here.
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In fairness… the guy who invented the Internet is also listed…
I thought that Al Gore invented the internet?
Nope, that was the Internets.
I think you are referring to Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, not the Internet. Only Microsoft Internet Explorer users get the two confused – they think the blue “e” is the Internet.
If it weren’t for Berners-Lee, we would be having this vote, or this discussion.
Tough choice
Simon Cowell?? Per-leeze! That moron couldn’t innovate his way out of a pair of high-waisted trousers.
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Agreed. Ditto Banksy. The rest are all worthy contenders. Maybe less so Rowling, but her tax payments have to be doing a lot of good for the British government.
Dyson has a chance too. There are only two companies that innovate their asses off. He runs one of them.
Garbage. Here’s a hint: Go to any decent vacuum repair shop and ask them to peek in their shop or even just tell you which kind of vacuums they fix most. If not #1, Dyson is in the top 2 or 3 every time.
I think all the Dyson rip-offs on the market is a greater tribute to Dyson than your anecdotal evidence.
Done.
Also, in the missed someone textfield put “vic reeves”
Berners-Lee invented the WWW using a NeXT computer, specifically leveraging its advanced development tools. If you’re reading MDN, there’s a good chance you’re using Mac OS X, the heir of NeXT OS.
Why is Simon Cowel’s name on the list? For freaking American Idol???
Simon Cowell almost single handedly destroyed music with his shite cover bands.
He’s not worthy to lick the dog shit off Jony Ive’s shoes. An utter imbecile who got lucky with a rapidly tiring format.
Talking of Simon Cowell and dogs….
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98qEXAHWDr8&w=560&h=315%5D
Simon is the worst thing to happen to music in recent memory.
Much as I love Jony Ive, Tim Berners-Lee gets my vote. The World Wide Web is the single most important technological innovation of the past 20-25 years – and Berners-Lee came up with the concept. Interestingly (as some have already pointed out), the first implementation of the Web was on a NeXT computer.
– HCE
“The World Wide Web is the single most important technological innovation of the past 20-25 years”
And where would the porn industry be without it?
Where would MDN be without it?