Il 21 Aprile a Padova avrà luogo l’Innovation Day, l’evento organizzato attorno alle premiazioni dei vincitori dei concorsi “Innovators Under 35 Italia” e “Smart and Disruptive Companies Italia” di MIT Technology Review.
Con l’avvicinarsi del termine per la presentazione del modulo di iscrizione ai concorsi indetti dall’edizione italiana di MIT Technology Review per i giovani innovatori al di sotto dei 35 anni e le società “Smart e Disruptive” del 2015, la redazione lancia un ultimo richiamo a tutti i potenziali interessati.
Di seguito riproponiamo il bando per entrambi i concorsi.
N.b. Il bando per l’iscrizione al concorso “Innovators Under 35 Itlaia” è in inglese perché tutti i partecipanti sono tenuti a presentare in questa lingua l’application form.
Innovators Under 35 Italia is a Section of a Global Reward by MIT Technology Review, the historical US magazine, that promotes the spread of emerging technologies and analyzes their impact from many points of view: scientific, commercial, social and political.
It is jointly promoted by MIT Technology Review (Italian Edition), and by the Research Innovation Entrepreneurship Forum, University of Padua. It aims is to collect and support best innovative ideas and projects of applied research developed in Italy, with relevant potential for the creation of technology based companies.
Innovators Under 35 Italia is open to everyone who has an innovative project or who had already started a company and needs to build connections with other researchers, innovators, investors. Established in 1999, the Innovators Under 35 (previously called TR35) recognizes outstanding innovators under the age of 35 each year. The awards span a wide range of fields, including biotechnology, materials, computer science and hardware, energy, transportation and the Internet.
The promoters are searching for individuals whose superb technical work holds great promise to shape the next decades. Their goal is to recognize the development of new technology or the creative application of existing technologies to solve problems.
They also reward ingenious and elegant work that matters to the world at large in particular field. MIT Technology Review showcases the Innovators under 35 on its online edition right after the award and usually in its July August issue of the Italian edition
MIT Technology Review and Technologyreview.com are published by Technology Review Inc., a company owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The main aims of Innovators Under 35 Italia are:
1. Highlighting the importance of scientific research for economic and social development
2. Presenting best innovative ideas and projects developed in Italy
3. Finding financial resources in order to support research and innovation projects
4. Promoting the entrepreneurial culture based on innovation
Awards for the best 10 young Innovators:
Will be published in the daily online, in the paper edition of the following month, in the official website of the Research Innovation Entrepreneurship Forum, and of NETVAL.
Awarded Innovators will present their projects in a special “Innovation Day” Event on April 21 and will receive an award from a distinguished scientist or entrepreneur. Representatives of Industrial Companies, Academia, Italian Government and the EU Commission will bring their experience and comments the projects.
Two of the 10 Young Innovators (one outstanding for the innovative aspect of his technology, the other for its social impact) will be invited to spend a couple of days in MIT and meet whomever they consider relevant for their work.
Criteria
The competition is open to everyone, Italian, or non Italian working in Italy, who has a brilliant idea and has already developed a project based on technological innovation and applied research. Every field of research will be accepted. People coming from Universities and Research Centers, start-ups, medium to small companies, large corporations, no profit organizations, are encouraged to participate.
Innovators Under 35 Italia applicants must be under the age of 35 on October 1, 2014 (born after October 1, 1978).
Application Procedures
In order to compete, you are requested to present an idea based on technological innovation or the results of applied research. The idea and the results must be the original outcome of the efforts of the single participant. If you wish to participate, please complete the application form.
Evaluation
A Scientific Committee will evaluate the projects and advise the Editorial Board of MIT Technology Review.it who will be responsible for the final selection. The Committee will include professors, researchers from different Universities, high-tech entrepreneurs managers, seed and venture capitalists.
The main criteria for the evaluation are the following: originality of the results, degree of innovation, impact of potential applications and their economic and social consequences. Each project will be evaluated along with the following criteria: The impact of the project. We want to reward people who introduce new and better solutions that change the way people live or work; elegant and brilliant solutions and the multidisciplinary perspective: projects that have ambitious targets and that people are currently working on.
Premio “Smart and Disruptive Companies Italia”
Quali società MIT Technology Review definisce ‘Disruptive’?
I redattori di MIT Technology Review, Edizione Italiana, hanno iniziato la ricerca per definire le 10 società Italiane maggiormente innovative (definite ‘Disruptive’), principalmente nei settori Energia, Bio-Medicina, Computer, Web, Comunicazione ed Automazione.
Le segnalazioni a admin@technologyreview.it indicando nell’oggetto “Segnalazioni per il per il Concorso ‘Smart&Disruptive'” possono provenire da qualunque fonte: Lettori, Partner, Associazioni di Categoria, Aziende, …. Non si tratta di una valutazione quantitativa di parametri quali il numero dei brevetti, le spese in R&D, la Capitalizzazione di Mercato.
MIT Technology Review è alla ricerca di società che abbiano realizzato qualcosa di particolarmente rilevante sul mercato nell’ultimo anno. Qualcosa che mette a rischio la leadership di altri su un mercato, rafforza la presenza sul proprio, o crea un mercato nuovo.
A partire dal 2014 abbiamo aggiunto al concetto di ‘Disruptive’ anche quello di ‘Smart’, per indicare società la cui ‘innovazione’ è frutto dell’integrazione di innovazioni esistenti, o i cui prodotti o servizi presentino un valore sociale speciale.
Nell’allegato potrete consultare le vincitrici del concorso Smart and Disruptive Companies Italia per il 2014.
