Award-winning Polish innovative solutions showcased at the Copernicus Science Centre
Photo: PAP/Rafał Guz
Polish innovative solutions, which last year won awards at international exhibitions, were presented last week at the 22nd Inventions Exchange in Warsaw. We have a lot to brag about - concluded Deputy Minister of Science Włodzisław Duch.
Invited to participate in the Inventions Exchange, held on 17 and 18 February in the Conference Centre of the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw, were innovators whose solutions won medals and other awards at international exhibitions of inventions in 2014. Last Tuesday, the best award-winning exhibitors were awarded diplomas of the Ministry of Higher Education Science and statues.
As summarized at the ceremony, in 2014 at the exhibitions of inventions Polish inventions won 5 Grand Prix awards, 91 gold medals with special distinction, 136 gold medals, 149 silver medals, 89 bronze medals and more than 250 special prizes.
"It is not that difficult to come up with an idea, but to bring the idea to the point where we have prototypes with chance for commercialisation is a long, difficult road" - said Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education Włodzisław Duch and admitted that he himself was the author of several patents and fought to implement them.
"Without inventions, without innovation, without the development of sophisticated technology we will not have great opportunities - we will always make simple and poorly paid things. This is why the future belongs to the inventors" - said the Duch.
Prof. Aleksander Sieroń from the Medical University of Silesia, whose team received the Grand Prix at the exhibition in Brussels last year, said that when inventors are mentioned, it is often emphasised that innovation should make money. "But the inventor is accompanied by passion. Passion, which not can be translated into money alone" - he said.
He admitted that the device that he had developed - OXYBARIA S, with which he won in Brussels, saved 24 legs from amputation so far. "Neither I, nor the patients earned money on that. But they have legs they can walk on now" - he said. OXYBARIA S is a device that allows to combine ozone treatment, which inhibits the growth of bacteria, with the use of hyperbaric oxygen (high pressure), which improves localized oxygenation. Such therapy - according to the inventors - increases the rate of healing of chronic wounds.
The Inventions Exchange presented Polish solutions recognized last year at exhibitions in Geneva, Nuremberg, Brussels, Seoul, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur and Sevastopol - a total of 130 inventions. The event was organized by the Association of Polish Inventors and Innovators and in collaboration with Eurobusiness-Haller. On Wednesday, February 18, anyone interested could visit the fair free of charge to see the presented technological solutions.
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