The Prize Innovadores de América was created by INNOVAMERICA, INC. With headquarters in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, it is the institution responsible for the general organization, promotion and implementation of the award. INNOVAMERICA legally incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, under the registration number 4490423 of April 18, 2008, is formed by the Grupo Pages (main partners of Pages BBDO in the Dominican Republic); Patricia Janiot (anchorwoman for CNN en Español); Gustavo Sorzano (artist, humanist, and creator of this award) and Also Espinosa (consultant for institutional strengthening for projects related to justice and corruption).

Gustavo Sorzano had known of significant Latin American initiatives and projects in the fields of science, technology, design, social areas, that no one was aware of. For a long time he dwelled on the idea of how to manage for these types of projects to have the same dissemination and acknowledgement as those generated by sports, literature, and art, areas in which Latin Americans have been universally known.

Encountering, during a journalistic event in the Dominican Republic, with others preoccupied with the same issue, Frank Marino Hernandez (deceased), suggested discussing the subject with Felipe Pages, President of Pages BBDO, a person concerned with social responsibility issues in Latin America. Felipe´s enthusiasm in turn generated a meeting with Patricia Janiot, a Latin American journalist with CNN, with Aldo Espinosa Simenauer, at that moment director of the USAID’s project for the Modernization of Land Court, and generated the logistical and financial support required to make it a reality. This resulted in the creation of the Institute for the Development of Creativity and Innovamerica, Inc.

This important initiative is expected to become the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for Latin Americans.