These 'hot and fast' companies were honored for innovation

Greater Louisville Inc.'s EnterpriseCorp honored 12 Louisville-area companies last night in its Hot and Fast Innovation Awards program.The awards honor companies that are early-stage innovators (hot) and fast-growth “gazelles” (fast). The criteria to choose the hot companies included being technology-based, using innovation to differentiate themselves in the marketplace and incorporating some level of intellectual property with their innovation, according to a news release.