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Chairman’s special corporate innovation award recognizes Nokia’s dedication to innovation

Nokia was the sole corporate recipient in this year’s Economist Innovation Awards. At the seventh annual Economist’s Innovation Awards ceremony on October 30 at the Science Museum in London, UK, Nokia received an award in the corporate use of innovation category and was recognized for its innovative culture, renewal ability and rapid response to new consumer trends.  

The Economist Annual Innovation Awards celebrates the achievements and innovations that have positively transformed global business with commitment to new ideas and creativity. A distinguished panel of judges selects the winners in all eight categories. This was the second year running that a chairman’s special award for corporate innovation has been given to a company. The seven additional awards are typically conferred to individual recipients. 

Mark Selby, Vice President of Industry Collaborations accepted the award on Nokia’s behalf: “We are honored to be the sole corporate recipient of The Economist’s prestigious Innovation Award in recognition of Nokia’s corporate use of innovation. Nokia has a 140-year history of reinvention from its roots in pulp and rubber to a leader in mobile devices. ‘Passion for Innovation’ is a Nokia core value that permeates our culture as well as the products and services we deliver to our customers around the world. Our customers and the developer community have directly contributed to this innovation and we thank them for their valued engagement. Today, we continue our renewal with the addition of services that will improve peoples’ lives by connecting them in new and better ways.”

Recently, Forum Nokia launched a way for the clever guys and girls from all over the world to swap ideas about developing for mobile. This is Nokia’s link to the global brain. A renewed communities site called ‘Developer Community’ http://community.forum.nokia.com/ hosts Wiki based ‘how-to’ guides, Discussion forums and Blogs.

Anyone can visit the site and comment on Blog posts or search for help. Forum Nokia members can use single sign-on to get access to these services and contribute to Wikis, and participate in discussions. This interactive service complements other online resources provided by Forum Nokia.

‘The Lobby’ is the main page integrating all Developer Community resources including the latest news, RSS feeds from other valuable information sources, videos, podcasts, and more.

With more than 10 000 messages and posts per month, from all corners of the globe, this is the most active mobile development community site there is.