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Rules

Purpose

Main reason to organize IIDA competition is to encourage students and employees of Tampere University of Technology (TUT), University of Tampere (UTA) and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) to innovate. All activities create more open atmosphere towards entrepreneurship. At the same time competition opens possibilities for business incubators and innovation departments to help in idea commercialization.
 
It is possible to participate the competition with an idea that has direct or indirect technical, economical or social influence either short or long perspective. Competition is also suitable for ideas that are not yet possible to realize, but it contains lots of potential and innovation.
 

Series

1. Product ideas and innovations
2. Service ideas
3. Company challenges
 
The challenges linked to the series 3 are shown in detail in IIDA web-pages. It is possible that during the first weeks of competition will some more challenges take part to competition or some information that are in challenge description may change if it is clear that there is some incoherency. All the changes will be noted in these web-pages.
 

Participation

IIDA is meant for students, researchers and employees at Tampere University, Tampere University of Technology and Tampere University of Applied Sciences.  It is possible to participate competition with an idea or innovation that is not yet known and/or in open markets. Proposal is possible to make by an individual or small group. All prizes will be targeted to the proposal despite the number of team members.
 
The Jury can spread or limit the participation to the competition. Jury members and people that are directly linked to organizing the competition can not participate it themselves.
 
Participation is done by filling the competition form that is available in competition web-pages. It is possible to attach extra material (drawings, plans etc.) to the proposal when filling the form.
 

Competition representative

Competition representative will be Jarno Kolehmainen from Hermia Business Development Ltd. Representative will answer all enquiries concerning competition and will be confidential link between the jury and participants.
 

Giving proposal

It is possible to give proposal to competition only by filling the competition form in competition web-pages http://www.hermiayrityskehitys.fi/iida. All proposals have to be sent before 31.03.2010 at 23:59.
 

Jury

Jury members are:
 
Esa Ala-Uotila, TAMK
Pekka Jussila, Hermia Business Development Ltd
Pasi Rautiainen, TUT
Olli Kuismanen, UTA
Kari Salomaa, Finn-Medi Research Ltd
 
If it is necessary, Jury may use some external experts in helping their task, if experts are not involved itself in creating the proposals.
 

Judgment criteria’s

Main target is to find new technical, economical and/or socioeconomical potential containing product, service or application ideas or business models linked to those. Accurate description of the idea, or the benefit or potential of it, will ease up the judgment and evaluation. It is understandable that some idea phase proposals can be very abstract.
 
When evaluating the proposal the main focus will be in the usefulness and significance of the idea for the society as a new product, service or application. Heavy influence will be how new and innovative idea is and what is its commercial potential. In series 3  Companies will create the criteria for the evaluation of proposals.
 
Basic idea is that proposal has to have possibility to realize and it has to have some technical, economical or social potential. The more detailed and accurate the proposal is, the better possibilities it has to succeed in competition. It is possible to participate with proposal where the product or service is not possible to patent or protect other ways.
 

Results

Results of the competition will be informed in May 2010 in prize ceremony.
 

Prizes

The minimum sum of prizes is total 5000 euros. Depending the general level of the competition will Jury keep the rights to determine final prize sums and the number of winning proposals. All proposals that have commercial potential will be helped by cooperation with local business incubators and universities research and innovation departments.
 
It is possible that there are some extra prizes in competition that are targeted to e.g. for some series or a problem. These extra prizes will be appointed by Jury.
 

Other prizes

  • Universities can give extra prizes to proposals linked to their university
  • Jury has rights to give distinction to some proposal that it wants particularly encourage
  • In series 3 Company challenges every company will give at least first prize to the best proposal concerning their challenge. These company related prizes are described in company challenge form
  • Jury will select the main winner of the series 3. The main winner will be one of the proposals that companies have selected their first prize winners.
 
To get the prize it is mandatory that name of the proposal and names of partipant(s) can be published. The final public description of the proposal will be finalized together with participant before it will be published.
 

Confidentiality and IPR issues

All proposals are confidential. In series 1 and 2 all the rights for the proposal will remain for participant(s). Competition representative, organize committee or jury members do not have any right related to the proposal or commercial potential of it.
 
In series 3 the company, which challenge the proposal tries to solve, has rights to use the idea in their own business. Competition representative, organize committee or jury members do not have any right related to proposal or commercial potential of it. If participant is willing to protect the idea, the jury recommends that it is to be done before filling the competition form. Jury hope that if participant is not sure how to proceed, they will contact the competition representative before filling the competition form, so that it is possible to consult what series the participation is best to do and/or what kind of need for protection is necessary.
 
University employees should take into account that they are obliged to give the university an invention disclosure notification if the innovation requires it. Universities patent personnel and competition representative will help in these issues.
 

Proposal rejection

It is possible to eliminate all the proposals from the competition if proposals do not fill the terms of these rules.
 

Returning proposals

Proposals will not be returned to the participants. All competition related material will be destroyed when competition is ended and all prize winners are informed.
 
* These rules are direct translation of finnish rules. In any case if there is need for interpretation of the rules, will the final verdict made from original finnish rules. 

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