- Takeda Awards
The
Takeda Foundation , is an organisation based inJapan . In2001 it launched an annual awards program, which presented awards accompanied by 100 millionyen 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, free software and open source software."
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. [http://www.takeda-foundation.jp/en/topics/press/030707.html]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
Resources
* [http://www.takeda-foundation.jp/en/index.html Takeda Foundation]
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