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IFIA Magazine - Mar ch 2021 |

separate program of STEM workshops.
Under the umbrella of ARCA 2020, a separate
panel “Entrepreneurship and Innovation
in the Time of Corona” took place,
concerning itself with the sustainability of
innovative entrepreneurship in the newly
arisen circumstances.
In addition to the usual gold, silver, and
bronze awards this year marks the first time
that WIPO Awards For Innovation were
featured, going in the Youth category to
the innovation “Smart Beekeper’s Scale”
developed by the young innovator Matija
Hrzic. In the Senior category, the WIPO
Award was awarded to the innovation
“Mobile Corona Quarantine Tehnix 8/4” of
a technological company in good standing,
Tehnix Ltd.
The traditional IFIA Award went to
the innovation “OXIECO-General Use
Disinfectant Generator Using Electrolysis”
by the innovator Franjo Trumbetas.
Since the pandemic proved itself to be
the cause of a foundation of a number
of start-ups associated with innovations
targeted at fighting the Coronavirus crisis,
one of such start-ups, Kristalna Ideja Ltd.
used the ARCA as an opportunity to launch
the product “I Therapy”, an automated
compact wall-mounted air purifier which
won the ARCA 2020 Grand Prix. The product
is already available at both the Croatian
domestic and international markets and
has garnered numerous international
acclaim. The company Kristalna Ideja Ltd.
headed by the innovator Inga Kovacic
Sindic has gone on record saying that it
sees the participation and exhibition at
international innovation expos like ARCA
2020 a key in effective networking with
foreign partners and distributors.

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