The
Takeda Foundation, is an organisation based in
Japan. In 2001 it launched an annual awards program, which presented awards accompanied by 100 million
yen
The is the official currency of Japan. It is the third-most traded currency in the foreign exchange market, after the United States dollar (US$) and the euro. It is also widely used as a third reserve currency after the US dollar and the e ...
under the categories social/economic well-being, individual/humanity well-being, and world environmental well-being.
Winners
Awardees within each category are listed in alphabetical order.
2001
Social/Economic Well-Being
The technical achievement honored by the Takeda Award 2001 Techno-Entrepreneurial Achievements for Social/Economic Well-Being was "the origination and the advancement of open development models for system software -
open architecture
Open architecture is a type of computer architecture or software architecture intended to make adding, upgrading, and swapping components with other computers easy. For example, the IBM PC, Amiga 500 and Apple IIe have an open architecture supp ...
,
free software
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, no ...
and
open source software
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Open ...
."
Individual/Humanity Well-Being
The technical achievement honored by the Takeda Award 2001 Techno-Entrepreneurial Achievements for Individual/Humanity Well-Being was "development of a large-scale genome sequencing system by establishing 'the whole
genome shotgun strategy' that utilizes modularized data acquisition system and high-throughput DNA sequencers."
World/Environmental Well-Being
The technical achievement honored by the Takeda Award 2001 Techno-Entrepreneurial Achievements for World Environmental Well-Being is "the development and promotion of the Ecological Rucksacks and Material Input per Unit Service (MIPS) concepts, as measures of the ecological stress of products and services."
The awards were suspended in 2003 due to financial constraints, with the hope that they could be restarted if/when the Takeda Foundation's financial situation improves.
press release
on takeda-foundation.jp
As well as the above awards, also in 2001 and 2002 they presented the Techno-Entrepreurship Award, and the Takeda Scholarship Award.
2002
Social/Economic Well-Being
Individual/Humanity Well-Being
World/Environmental Well-Being
See also
* List of environmental awards
This list of environmental awards is an index to articles about notable environmental awards for activities that lead to the protection of the natural environment. The list is organized by the region and country of the organization that sponsors ...
Resources
Takeda Foundation
References
Awards established in 2001
Environmental awards
Humanitarian and service awards
Japanese science and technology awards
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