Thailand's National Innovation Agency, known as NIA and operating under the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation, used its National Innovation Day 2026 ceremony in Bangkok to spotlight three projects that it says show how local research can move into everyday use. The event, which marked the 22nd year of the National Innovation Awards, also honored King Bhumibol, referred to as Rama IX, as the Father of Thai Innovation.
Among the honorees, Buzzebees Co. won the first prize in the Economic category for an artificial intelligence platform that handles customer relationship management and marketing. The company says the platform helped it reach 2.964 billion baht in revenue for 2025 and supports about 260 jobs each year. Those figures come from the company itself and have not been independently verified.
In the Social category, Perceptra Co. received first prize for INSPECTRA MMG, an AI tool designed to assist radiologists reading mammograms of women with dense breast tissue, a condition that can make cancer harder to see. The company reports a 97 percent cancer detection rate, based on a model trained on more than 400,000 images. As with the other claims, that validation was carried out and reported by the company.
The Environmental category's top honors went to MyraShell Aroma from Manee Mongkol Gems, which turns shell waste into bio-materials. The project works with a fisheries association in Chonburi to source its raw material, giving coastal shell waste a second use. Across all its award rounds, the agency says more than 370 projects have been recognized, with claimed economic impact above 138 billion baht. Those totals are likewise self-reported by the participating projects.
Credit. Based on reporting by Adlena Wong for Alvinology. Is this your work? Write to us.
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