"Innovation is the biggest contributor to wealth and job creation. Britain needs more. Get-togethers like this help", Luke Johnson, serial entrepreneur and Chairman of Startup Britain quoted in The Sunday Times on the 23rd December 2012 when he chose this Festival as his best start-up venture of the year.
The 2012 edition of the Malvern Festival of Innovation was also recognized as a High Impact Event by Global Entrepreneurship Week UK.