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Industry-Academia Collaboration Award

Status Discontinued

Prizes archive

We have recognised excellence in the chemical sciences for more than 150 years and we are proud of this legacy and history.

This prize is part of our archive that holds a digital library of our previously administered prizes, their history, and previous winners.

The Industry-Academia Collaboration Prize recognised outstanding examples of teamwork in promoting innovation through industry-academia partnerships. The prize was created in 2004 as the Teamwork in Innovation Award, and was renamed in 2017. 

This prize was discontinued in 2023, as part of a series of changes introduced following an independent review of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s recognition programmes.

For current recognition opportunities for partnerships and people working in collaboration, read more about our Innovation Through Partnership Prize and our Horizon Prizes.

Previous winners

  • 2023 - University of St Andrews School of Chemistry & ZEM Fuel Systems Ltd.
  • 2022 - The University of Edinburgh School of Chemistry & Sunamp Ltd.
  • 2021 - University of Strathclyde & GSK
  • 2020 - The DISTINCTIVE Consortium
  • 2019 - SCG-Oxford Centre of Excellence in Chemistry
  • 2018 - Project Pelican (BP Sunbury and University of Birmingham)
  • 2017 - Gold VCM (Cardiff University & Johnson Matthey)
  • 2016 - GSK and University of Edinburgh
  • 2015 - Procter & Gamble and Durham University partnership
  • 2014 - The Quill Research Centre (University of Belfast)
  • 2013 - Not awarded
  • 2012 - Biostatus Ltd and University of Bradford
  • 2011 - The Institute of Cancer Research, Abiraterone Discovery and Clinical Development Team
  • 2010 - Pfizer Global Research & Development
  • 2009 - Perfect 10 Hair Colour (Procter & Gamble)
  • 2008 - Not awarded
  • 2007 - Dow Corning Ltd and Loughborough University
  • 2006 - Prosonix Ltd 
  • 2005 - Epichem Ltd and University of Liverpool
  • 2004 - Merck Chemicals Ltd