Today, Parolari can already lay claim to 15 inventions: “I always enjoyed solving prob-lems and finding new ways of doing things,” he says. After taking his degree, he worked for a year in university research but then decided in favor of a career in business. He now works as a system designer on the further development of mobile phone stan-dards. The inventions for which he received the award increase the bandwidth in GPRS systems, make them multitasking-capable and reduce delays in data transfer.