The Dragon-STAR Innovation Award, sponsored by European Union (EU), aims at delivering visibility to shining examples of Chinese-European successful collaboration cases in order to motivate and stimulate future Chinese-European cooperation. The innovation to be evaluated should be a result of a research or business cooperation, a specific product, process(es), and/or technology(ies) entailing novelties or improvements going beyond of the state-of-the-art. The innovation presented must have industrial relevance (e.g. in form of an industry relevant topic or in form of the participation of an industrial partner).