| Assist Prof Dr | Bárbara | Socas-Rodríguez | University of La Laguna | Spain | Innovation Strategy | Analytical Chemistry | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Jose | Gonzalez | Stolt Tankers B.V. | Netherlands | Innovation Strategy | Marine industry | Excellence in Innovation | View Profile |
| Prof | Liang | MEI | National School of Development, Peking University | China | Innovation Strategy | open and user innovation, innovation system | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Assist Prof Dr | Karima | Megdouli | Sorbonne universite | France | Innovation Strategy | machine learning to optimise a supersonic ejector | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Assist Prof Dr | silvia | rocchetta | Dublin City University Business School | Ireland | Innovation Strategy | Circular economy and innovation | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Shyam | Sihare | Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Govt College | India | Innovation Strategy | Computer Digital Image Processing | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Guifang | Wang | University Putra Malaysia | Malaysia | Innovation Strategy | Business and economic/business/digitalisation of SMEs | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof | Luca | Dezi | University of Rome La Sapienza | Italy | Innovation Strategy | SMEs | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Svetlana | Tuzova | Federal Institute of Industrial Property | Russia | Innovation Strategy | patent analytics for innovation | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Venkata Suresh | Bade | GMR Institute of Technology | India | Innovation Strategy | Natural Energy sources | Best Researcher Award | |
| Assist Prof Dr | Subhadeep | Roy | National Institute of Pharmaceutical education and Research, Kolkata | India | Innovation Strategy | 3D In-vitro Diseases Model, Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine | Young Scientist Award | |
| Dr | Mir Asif | Iquebal | ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Insittute | India | Innovation Strategy | Agricultural Bioinformatics | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Sarika | | ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute | India | Innovation Strategy | Agricultural Bioinformatics | Women Researcher Award | |
| Prof | Ayse | Saka-Helmhout | Radboud University | Netherlands | Innovation Strategy | Corporate social innovation | Best Researcher Award | |
| Mr | Konstantin | Kostromitin | South Ural State University | Russia | Innovation Strategy | Information technologies | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Mohammad | Sahabuddin | State University of Bangladesh | Bangladesh | Innovation Strategy | Financial Markets and Portfolio Diversification | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Ms | Jing | Liu | Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | Innovation Strategy | HIRE: Distilling high-order relational knowledge from heterogeneous graph neural networks | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Ayan | Mallik | Arizona State University | United States | Innovation Strategy | Power Electronics and Energy Conversion | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Mr | Pierluigi | Rippa | University of Naples Federico II | Italy | Innovation Strategy | Open Innovation | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Mr | Mustapha | Douani | Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche scientifique | Algeria | Innovation Strategy | Énergétique des procédés/ Économie d'énergie/ zone sans distinction de | Excellence in Innovation | View Profile |