Criteria

All innovations will be judged on innovativeness and applicability and on two criteria that the participant should choose. A motivation of maximum 250 words has to be written for each chosen criterion; each criterion counts for 25 percent.

Criteria for all innovations:

• Applicability:  What is the application of your innovation? Which market(s) will it serve? What is the drive to apply your innovation?
• Innovativeness:  Explain in what sense your innovation (activity) is new. And next to that, what kind of change(s) does your innovation provoke (e.g. in markets and scale)?

Variable criteria:

• Sustainability:  What is the effect of your innovation on people and planet?
• Aesthetics:  How is your innovation appealing for the (end)user?
• Simplicity:  How did you reduce complexity?
• Social impact:  Which impact could your innovation have on (global) society?
• Producability:  In what way have you taken into account the possibility to produce and to maintain your innovation?
• Usability:  Explain how your innovation is easy to use by the (end)user.