CONFERENCE PRIZE FOR THE BEST INNOVATIONS IN 2016
At the conference, a special prize for innovations from public research organizations will be awarded. The emphasis of the competition is on presentation of business propositions in front of the evaluation commission, which is constituted of investors and technology commercialization experts. The commission members will evaluate the commercial potential of the presented innovative technologies and will award the technology with the highest commercial potential a monetary prize in the amount of 2.000 EUR.
Please read the Public Call document available on the right, download and fill-in the application form and send it to tehnologije@ijs.si by 1 September 2016.
EVALUATION COMMISSION
Members of the Evaluation Commission are being selected from the regional venture capital companies and technology transfer experts. This year’s commission members are (in alphabetical order):
- Domen Bole, Technology Park Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Uroš Glavan, DTK Murka, Slovenia
- Borut Kolmanič, SmartCon, Slovenia
- Vlado Miloševič, META Group, Slovenia/Italy
- Jean-Pierre Nozieres, eVaderis, France
- Tony Raven, Cambridge Enterprise Limited, University of Cambridge, UK
- Henric Rhedin, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Borut Rismal, Pasadena, Slovenia
EVALUATION CRITERIA
Every application will be assessed by the members of the commission on the basis of predetermined assessment criteria(*):
| Criteria lots |
Criterions (maximum 10 points each) |
| 1. Overall |
Degree to which project aligns with market need |
| Project’s IPR situation |
| 2. Product/application advantage |
Unique benefits |
| Meets customer needs better |
| Value for money |
| 3. Market attractiveness |
Market size |
| Market growth |
| Favorable trends |
| 4. Competitive situation |
Degree of entry barriers |
| Level of |
| Manufacturing / processing synergies |
| 5. Technology maturity |
Technical gap |
| Complexity |
| Technical uncertainty |
| 6. Risk versus return |
Expected profitability (e.g. NPV) |
| Return (e.g. IRR) |
| Payback period |
| Certainty of return / profit estimates |
| Low cost & fast to do |
(*) Source: Jon Wulff Petersen, TTO A/S, Denmark
Evaluation of the project will be done in two parts: evaluation of the written application and evaluation of the presentation at the conference workshop.
PREPARATORY WORKSHOP ON PITCHING
We will organize the workshops on preparing the effective “pitch” presentation of the proposals for the applicants.
Please send us your interest for attending the workshops by email: tehnologije@ijs.si.
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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS:
1 September 2016
PRIZE FUND:
2000 EUR
DOCUMENTATION:
Public Call .doc .pdf
Application Form .doc .pdf
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
All information disclosed during the presentations of the submitted cases are considered as confidential. This part of the conference is considered a not public event.
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