Takeda Awards
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 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."| Ken Sakamura | For developing and promoting the TRON open architecture, a real-time operating system specification for embedded systems |
| Richard Stallman | For starting the free software movement and leading the development of the GNU operating system |
| Linus Torvalds | For developing the Linux operating system kernel by the open source process for software development |
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."| Michael W. Hunkapiller | For his contribution to the development of the automated high-throughput DNA sequencers and the promotion of the foundation of Celera Genomics |
| J. Craig Venter | For the foundation of Celera Genomics and the development of "the whole genome shotgun strategy". |
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 concepts, as measures of the ecological stress of products and services."| Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek | for developing and promoting the Ecological Rucksacks and Material Input per Unit of Service concepts. |
| Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker | For his contribution in refining and promoting the Ecological Rucksacks and Material Input per Unit Service concepts. |
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.
As well as the above awards, also in 2001 and 2002 they presented the Techno-Entrepreurship Award, and the Takeda Scholarship Award.