​​Thomas Oxley and Nicholas Opie invented the Stentrode, an implantable brain-computer interface (BCI) that enables patients living with paralysis to communicate through thought. ​

​​Pia Bergström, Annika Malm, Jukka Myllyoja, Jukka-Pekka Pasanen and Blanka Toukoniitty, a team of inventors from the Finnish company Neste, have been part of developing a unique technology that enables a wide variety of wastes and residues to be transformed into premium-quality renewable products, such as fuel.​

Scientists Thorsteinn Loftsson and Einar Stefánsson have developed an eye drop that can deliver drugs to the back of the eye, replacing costly and invasive eye injections that are less accessible and require a medical professional to administer.