The Communications Innovation Challenge 2009  took place as Alcatel-Lucent's privileged partnership programme to seek out early stage companies in the communications sector to co-develop technology, products, markets and business.

The winners are:

Arieso
Arieso is a leading provider of subscriber experience geo-location, capital budget management and automatic network optimization solutions for wireless networks

Oricane
Oricane specializes in developing methods, technologies and software components to enable computer programs to "do a lot with little". Its technology can be used to create green software – energy efficient software.

Softkinetic
Softkinetic is the leader in natural interfaces that transform the way people interact with the digital world. We provide the most advanced software platform for building immersive, transparent and intuitive user experiences within the fields of Interactive Digital Entertainment, Serious Games, Interactive Marketing and Consumer Electronics.