| Prof | Bogdan | Majkusiak | Warsaw Unversity of Technology | Poland | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |
| Dr | Masanari | Tomozawa | JFE steel co. | Japan | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |
| Ms | Manal | EL KASSIMI | ENCG Agadir Business School, Ibn Zohr University | Morocco | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |
| Ms | Pragti | Saini | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee | India | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |
| Prof | Sinan | Basceken | Hitit University | Turkey | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |
| Ms | Catharina | Weiss | Universitat Hamburg & Macquarie University | Germany | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |
| Dr | Masaya | Yamamoto | Molecular Neuroscience Systems, Laboratory Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University | Japan | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |
| Prof. Dr | Yvonne | Brunetto | Southern Cross University | Australia | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |
| Dr | Yinglong | Li | Zhejiang University of Technology | China | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |
| Prof | Hongbin | Yan | School of Business, East China University of Science and Technology | China | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |
| Prof | Bin | Shi | Fudan University | China | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |
| Dr | Kunhyui | Kim | Nagoya University | Jersey | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |
| Dr | Sylvester William | Chisale | Malawi University of Science and Technology | Malawi | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |
| Dr | Xiaoou | Sun | Guangdong University of Technology | China | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |
| Prof. Dr | Najeh | Aissaoui | ESSECT, University of Tunis | Tunisia | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |
| Prof | Filiz | OGCE AKTAS | Izmir University of Economics | Turkey | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |
| Dr | Haili | Xia | Jiangsu Ocean University | China | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |
| Assist. Prof. Dr | Rofiqul | Umam | University of Tsukuba | Japan | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |
| Mr | Mohammad Reza | Mohammadi | Tarbiat Modares University | Iran | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Selda | Coskuner Aktas | Hacettepe University | Turkey | Research Excellence Award | innovatorawards.org |