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The<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>ConvergX\u00ae Innovation Award<\/strong>\u00a0will be given to an individual or organization that\u00a0has significantly influenced\u00a0cross-sector\u00a0innovation processes, and\/or the\u00a0education\/competence levels enabling innovation capabilities with great significance\u00a0to the Energy, Mining, or Aerospace, Defence & Security\u00a0(ADS)\u00a0industry. The individual or organization should meet the following criteria<\/span><\/p>\n 1. <\/span>Should be recognized internationally<\/span><\/p>\n 2.<\/span>\u00a0Must be in the Energy, Mining, or ADS industries, this includes research laboratories and\u00a0universities.<\/span><\/p>\n 3.<\/span>\u00a0Be active within\u00a0the industry and that are recognized as innovators who have developed new concepts, products\u00a0and methods bringing the Energy, Mmining, or ADS industries forward.<\/span><\/p>\n 4.<\/span>\u00a0Technical excellence, commercial success, and innovative projects with great\u00a0significance for technology in the industry as a result of their frontier pushing\u00a0activities, should be the most important factors when looking for candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n 5.\u00a0<\/span>Must act as a visionary ambassador for the industry. The work should influence people to be open to innovation and\u00a0incorporate new ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n 6.\u00a0<\/span>Be recognized for their technical excellence and performance.<\/span><\/p>\n Guidelines and Jury Assessment<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n The award can be given to managers of innovative companies, inventors of new\u00a0technology, project managers, researchers, university professors, research teams\u00a0and laboratories or others with great significance for promoting innovations in the Energy sector.<\/span><\/p>\n The work of the candidate has to show innovation excellence through a significant\u00a0period of time.<\/span><\/p>\n The Jury will evaluate the achievements as a result of the candidate’s work related\u00a0to the Energy, Mining and ADS sectors and according to the above listed criteria’s one through five.<\/span><\/p>\n Candidates can be nominated by any person or organization within the Energy, Mining or ADS sectors<\/span> [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Pre-Commercial Tech Criteria” _builder_version=”3.0.74″ text_font=”Merriweather||||” header_font=”Merriweather||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]<\/p>\n \u2022<\/span>\u00a0Less than 25 staff<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022<\/span>\u00a0Have developed a working prototype of a technology or service<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Have not formally launched the product on market (introduction to targeted pilot customers, and pre-launch marketing accepted)<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Product or service could be used by customers in both Defence and Energy industry<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Use of technology offers one or more of the following:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 –<\/span>\u00a0Performance improvements<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 –<\/span>\u00a0Increased efficiency in processes\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 –<\/span>\u00a0Advances in safety enhancements or environmental performance\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 –<\/span>\u00a0More effective use of time<\/span> CRITERIA FOR THE CONVERGX\u00ae INNOVATION AWARD The\u00a0ConvergX\u00ae Innovation Award\u00a0will be given to an individual or organization that\u00a0has significantly influenced\u00a0cross-sector\u00a0innovation processes, and\/or the\u00a0education\/competence levels enabling innovation capabilities with great significance\u00a0to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1031","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/convergex2018.wp2.guideloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/convergex2018.wp2.guideloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/convergex2018.wp2.guideloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/convergex2018.wp2.guideloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/convergex2018.wp2.guideloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/convergex2018.wp2.guideloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/convergex2018.wp2.guideloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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