Global inventor, innovation awards coming to region in 2021

Fort Myers notches a big win with the Edison Awards.

By Business Observer Staff
| 4:33 p.m. September 28, 2020
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Courtesy. Lenovo Chairman Yang Yuanqing and Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX won the 2014 Edison Achievement Award.

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Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and Martha Stewart aren’t only household names. The tech design icon, electric car pioneer and home décor guru are also past winners of an Edison Award.

Those awards, which honor some of the most innovative products and business leaders worldwide, are headed to Southwest Florida starting next year. The three-day celebration, according to a statement, will take place at the new Luminary Hotel and Co. and Caloosa Sound Convention Center in the downtown Fort Myers River District.