A Sunderland entrepreneur has been recognised by Innovate UK’s Women in Innovation Awards for work which is aiming to tackle some of society’s biggest challenges.
Vijayalakshmi Subramani is amongst 38 women across the UK who will be awarded £50,000 as well as mentoring and coaching to help to bringing new, disruptive products and services to market.
The women who feature on the list of winners – published on International Women’s Day in response to this year’s theme to ‘break the bias’ – have created new enterprises in response to challenges emerging from them pandemic, climate crisis, while also harnessing emerging technologies for education.