MISZ: record number of entries received for the Hungarian Innovation Grand Prix

It was announced that in terms of sectors, the industrial sector received the most entries, 25, followed by IT with 19, agriculture with 10, energy and environmental protection with 8 each and healthcare with 6 applications.

The announcement of the winning applications and the ceremonial award ceremony will take place on March 19th as part of the gala related to the InnoSummit2026 innovation conference, they informed.

The Hungarian Innovation Association, in cooperation with the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MKIK), the National Chamber of Agriculture (NAK) and the National Innovation Agency (NIÜ), the Ministry of Culture and Innovation (KIM) and the National The 34th Hungarian Innovation Grand Prize was announced on November 6, 2025, with the main support of the Hungarian Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH), the announcement said.

A novelty in this year’s competition was that companies could also be included in the group of applicants with the recommendation of organizations with insight into domestic innovation. These organizations are partners in the competition as sponsors or co-organizers (MKIK, NAK, NIÜ, KIM, NKFIH), as well as the Entrepreneurship Club of Corvinus, the Hungarian Business Angel Network, the Magyar Nemzeti Bank, Startup Hungary and STRT Holding. The nominating organizations nominated more than 230 domestic enterprises that have achieved outstanding innovation results for the award by November 30, it was recalled.

A total of more than 1,500 entries have been submitted to the call for applications since the grand prize was founded in 1991, of which 255 received various innovation awards, so the winners of these awards have formed the elite of domestic innovation, the Hungarian Innovation Club, for decades. The Innovation Trademark, recently awarded by the Innovation Coalition, established with the participation of MISZ at the initiative of the Hungarian National Bank and the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has now been awarded to, among others, 9 companies that have previously won one of the MISZ innovation awards. Among the new trademark owners, 16 more companies competed for the Innovation Grand Prize this year, the announcement reads.

Csaba Bőthe, CEO of the Hungarian Innovation Association, which announces the award, explained in the announcement that the Hungarian Innovation Grand Prize and the related 9 field innovation awards have been recognizing the most outstanding innovation achievements for more than three decades.

The judging committee has started evaluating the applications, the results will be published on the evening of March 18, on the eve of the Innosummit2026 conference, the winners will present themselves to the conference audience the next day, March 19 – announced the executive director of MISZ.