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How to submit your entry

Useful notes and guidance on how to enter for the North West Innovation in Engineering Awards 2008.

When are entries for the award due?

The deadline for entries is 5.00pm on 9th May 2008.

How do I submit my entry?

Submitting an entry is very straight-forward. Simply download the standard entry-form, complete off line and send your entry to Tony Thompson. (Full submission instructions are given on the form).

What will the judges be looking for?

Entries should show a plan or design for a new, altered or improved product, process or service for commercial use. Judges will be looking for entries that:

  • Demonstrate genuine technological novelty

  • Represent a significant technological advance with significant technical risks associated with the technology challenge

  • Demonstrate that the proposed work represents a significant technological advance for the industry or technology sector

Entries should be submitted for engineering projects and products that demonstrate the application of innovative design, technology, techniques and processes. Those projects that will be innovative for the business alone are not acceptable.

What are the selection criteria?

The judges will be applying the following selection criteria:

  • Social Impact - an innovation that changes society but may or may not have a financial impact

  • Economic Impact - an innovation that demonstrates a significant financial impact at the business or society level

  • Personal Impact - an innovation that demonstrates a significant impact on the lives of one or more individual

  • Learning - the extent to which the innovation contributes to the body of knowledge

  • Novelty - the extent to which the idea is 'new to humanity' rather than just new to the business

  • Process - an innovation that improves the way in which products or services are delivered to a client

  • "Patentability" - the extent to which the idea has defensible patent potential

  • Collaboration - an innovative organisational grouping to achieve one or more common aims

  • Organisational Innovation - an innovation that is concerned with creating an effective working environment and/or organisational culture

In summary entries are encouraged from organisations that:

  • Innovate a new world beating product or service

  • "Innovates" by adopting new technology / processes to improve what they already do

 

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