The IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1985. This award is presented for outstanding and exemplary contributions by an industrial entity, governmental, or academic organization, or other corporate body.

Recipients of this award will receive a certificate and crystal sculpture.

Recipients

• 1986:
  • Intel Corporation
  • Southern California
    Southern California
    Southern California is a megaregion, or megapolitan area, in the southern area of the U.S. state of California. Large urban areas include Greater Los Angeles and Greater San Diego. The urban area stretches along the coast from Ventura through the Southland and Inland Empire to San Diego...
    
    
• 1987:
  • Sony
    Sony
    , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
    
     Corporation
  • IBM
    IBM
    International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
    
     Corporation
• 1988:
  • AT&T Bell Laboratories
• 1989:
  • Hewlett-Packard
    Hewlett-Packard
    Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
    
     Company
• 1990:
  • IBM Corporation, Somers, NY
• 1991:
  • Apple Computer, Inc.
• 1992:
  • Ericsson
    Ericsson
    Ericsson , one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies, including especially mobile networks...
    
     Radio Systems AB
  • Philips Electronics
• 1993:
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center located in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles County, California, United States. The facility is headquartered in the city of Pasadena on the border of La Cañada Flintridge and Pasadena...
    
    
• 1994:
  • Bellcore
• 1995:
  • IBM Corporation - Armonk, NY
• 1996:
  • Texas Instruments
    Texas Instruments
    Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...
    
    , Digital Signal Processing Group
• 1997:
  • Motorola
    Motorola
    Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...
    
    , Inc.
• 1998:
  • Microsoft Corporation
• 1999:
  • BBN Technologies
    BBN Technologies
    BBN Technologies is a high-technology company which provides research and development services. BBN is based next to Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA...
    
    
• 1999:
  • Nokia
    Nokia
    Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...
    
     Corporation
• 2000:
  • Lucent Technologies
• 2000:
  • Sun Microsystems
    Sun Microsystems
    Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
    
    
• 2001: No Award
• 2002:
  • Cadence Design Systems
    Cadence Design Systems
    Cadence Design Systems, Inc is an electronic design automation software and engineering services company, founded in 1988 by the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD, Inc...
    
    , Inc.
• 2002:
  • Seiko Epson
    Seiko Epson
    , commonly known as Epson, is a Japanese technology company and one of the world's largest manufacturers of computer printers, information and imaging related equipment...
    
     Corporation
• 2002:
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
• 2003:
  • Xerox
    Xerox
    Xerox Corporation is an American multinational document management corporation that produced and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies...
    
     Corporation
• 2003:
  • Titan Corporation
• 2004:
  • Hewlett-Packard Company
• 2004:
  • QUALCOMM
    Qualcomm
    Qualcomm is an American global telecommunication corporation that designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services based on its code division multiple access technology and other technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, USA...
    
    , Inc.
• 2005:
  • AMD
• 2005:
  • NTT DoCoMo
    NTT DoCoMo
    is the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan. The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase, "do communications over the mobile network", and is also from a compound word dokomo, meaning "everywhere" in Japanese. Docomo provides phone, video phone , i-mode , and mail services...
    
    
• 2006:
  • ARM Limited
• 2007:
  • Toyota Motor Corporation
• 2007:
  • Texas Instruments, DLP
    DLP
    Digital Light Processing is a trademark owned by Texas Instruments, representing a technology used in some TVs and video projectors. It was originally developed in 1987 by Dr. Larry Hornbeck of Texas Instruments....
    
     Products
• 2008:
  • Research in Motion
    Research In Motion
    Research In Motion Limited or RIM is a Canadian multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada that designs, manufactures and markets wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market...
    
    
• 2009:
  • Corning
    Corning
    - Businesses and organizations :* Corning Incorporated* Dow Corning* Owens Corning* Corning Museum of Glass- People :* Edwin Corning , American businessman and politician* Erastus Corning , American businessman and politician...
    
    , Inc.
• 2009:
  • IBM T.J. Watson Research Center