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2009 Innovator of the Year
Elton Bishop
Judges Panel Luncheon
Greg Flowers
Six of the winners
Four of the winners
Jim Kratzat
James Langford
James Nichols
Steve Smith

DigitalHydraulic named Innovator of the Year

DigitalHydraulic LLC, a Fort Wayne company that has developed a digital hydraulic transmission, was named the Innovator of the Year at Business Weekly's Innovation Awards luncheon Thursday. Watch the video... more...

Solstice sees growing market for RFID tags

Solstice Medical LLC has reached the production stage for its radio-frequency identification products and doubled in size in the last year. The RFID tags and accompanying software package and scanning... more...

A student becomes the teacher

It was a book that first got James Langford thinking about financial literacy — and why his peers didn’t seem to know anything about it. When he was 13, Langford... more...

Safeguarding your information

All those user names and passwords that you’ve accumulated online while shopping for shoes, checking your bank accounts or ordering pizza not only become confusing after a while, they become... more...

Deciding what's truly innovative

Judging for the fourth-annual Innovation Awards competition was divided into two rounds. In the first round, representatives from Innovation Awards corporate sponsors went through the applications that had been received.... more...

Concern for soldiers' safety leads to product

When Butler police officer — now police chief — James Nichols served in Iraq in 2006, he encountered a problem he hadn’t seen in nearly a quarter century in the... more...

Novel hydraulic transformer raises worldwide interest

A small Fort Wayne company is starting to familiarize the hydraulics world with some concepts it patented this year that could revolutionize the industry. The head of DigitalHydraulic LLC who... more...

Business success depends on innovation

As our region emerges from the recession environment, it’s important for us at the Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly to once again recognize top innovators in our business community. Innovation... more...

A worthwhile investment

Jim Kratzat doesn’t claim that MSKTD & Associates Inc., the architectural firm he has led since 2007, is the only one in the area to adopt the latest 3-D technology... more...

Taking the hands-on approach

Build A Computer customers soon will be able to earn continuing-education credit through classes it offers at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. Greg Flowers, a former information-technology director for Lincoln... more...

Awards Video