Winners of the Next Big Thing Awards have been announced at an Award presentation ceremony in Melbourne on 2 July 2009. The overall winner of INNOVIC’s International Next Big Thing AwardTM 2009 was MycroLab Diagnostics Pty Ltd with their Handheld Medical Diagnostic System who won $10,000 cash plus other prizes, including design work from Rankin Design, media exposure and a MYOB Business Management software package.
Other prize winners included (see www.nextbigthingaward.com for more information):
| Winner | Handheld Medical Diagnostic System |
| Green/Environmental Winner | Creative Water Technology |
| Social/Community Benefit Winner | Fermiscan Breast Cancer Test™ |
| Innovation Excellence Winner | Gigabit Wireless Transceiver on CMOS |
| International Winner | 360 Paper water bottle |
| People’s Choice Award | VideoTrace |
| Highly Commended | Bamboo De-Brancher |