• Fifteen women have each collected a £50,000 prize after winning the first Women in Innovation competition.
• The number of UK women entrepreneurs is about half the level of men.
• The winning ideas included a plan to improve the cancer survival rate by using strings of beads to measure the dose and spread of radiation; solving a large volume waste problem by converting chicken feathers into an insulation product; a scheme for trailers to replace trucks to potentially save 10,000 UK truck journeys per day; and a new technique to improve chocolate manufacturing.
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