Design Innovation Award

A TechNES Community Award

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This award celebrates innovative product design involving strong Industry and/or Academic collaboration and completed within the last two years. It should demonstrate “World beating” technology development with a high potential of being adopted by industry. The award spans all relevant research and development within the electronics industry from equipment, materials or transistor development to architecture, software and systems engineering.

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    Nominee

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    Award Application : Complete below or send as an attachment ensuring you address each question separately

    In your responses please provide at least 100 words per question. Links to supporting webpages may be used

    Q1: Please select the category which best describes your application

    Innovation

    Q2: Please describe the nature of your design innovation, paying attention to the following points:

    • Differentiating / novel technology developed (e.g. patent / novel application…. etc.)

    • How the innovation solves identified problems or links to gaps in the market (opportunity)

    • How this adds value to the end-product / service

    • In the case of pre-commercial research, how do you plan for this to translate to business success

    • Strong Project Management and progress towards stated outcomes

    Collaboration

    Q3: Please explain how you have collaborated with customers, partners, suppliers and / or academic institutions in order to realise this innovation

    Outcome

    Q4: What were the results of this innovation process (e.g you exploited a gap in the market, were granted valuable patents, significantly improved business results, etc). Please share evidence of commercial success or business potential where possible.

    Future Plans

    Q5: How do you expect this innovation to affect your future business and plans going forward?

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