“Competition of innovative projects” was held in St. Petersburg

    In St. Petersburg on December 11, 2010, in the glorious hall of the Council of Rectors, the second annual “Competition of innovative projects” from the Club of Innovators was held .


    The competition was the final event of the Club in 2010. At it, we summed up the 15 meetings held this year and selected the best innovative project of 2010. More than 40 applications were submitted to the competition, but since Saturday night was not rubber, we conducted a preliminary examination of the projects and selected only the most worthy ones. As a result, through the snow and snowdrifts, representatives of 14 projects and about 90 participants got to the Competition.

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    Quarter final

    To give the opportunity to present our project to the maximum number of people, we applied the Olympic system. In the quarter-finals, representatives of six projects were given 150 seconds each to win the sympathy of the expert council in the ElevatorPitch format, which this time was the most representative since the Convention. Among the experts were 3 professors, 4 doctors of sciences, 4 directors, 2 technical directors, 2 innovation managers, 2 TRIZ experts and 2 patent attorneys.

    The jury selected three projects from the quarter-finalists who joined in the semifinal to four more that had already been selected. Vadim Froimovich Kaner (patent attorney of the Russian Federation, master of TRIZ) spoke between the stages, explaining with examples how important it is to protect your intellectual property in time.

    Semifinal

    Among the semi-finalists I remember Sergei Anatolyevich Matvienko, who talked about how GLONASS can be used to solve a specific and very important task of measuring the Earth's gravitational field. At first glance, the statement of the problem is bewildering, since from school we remember that g = 9.8. However, it turns out that depending on what is under our feet, gravity changes and this affects our well-being, for example, the work of the heart.
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    The final

    As a result, there were seven projects in the final

    The finalists were given 500 seconds each to speak and the same amount to answer questions from spectators and members of the expert council. Speakers should not only like the experts, but also win the sympathies of the audience in order to collect the largest amount of “investment”: 300,000 “Innovator Club rubles” were given to all the audience of the Competition upon registration, which they could “invest” in the project they liked most .

    Competition Results

    After all the speeches, the guests of the contest voted in rubles for the projects and left to drink coffee, and the jury had to choose the winners. After counting the investments, the winner of the audience vote was revealed, it was Alexander Katsay (Sensory gas analyzer), who thus received an additional score in the struggle for victory. The time has come to count the votes of experts ...

    The winner of the “Innovation Projects Competition” was Andrey Samokhvalov (Cleaning anilox rollers for printing houses), he received the main prize from the Idea. Investment. Innovation ”- PocketBookPro 902, and his project was recognized as the best project of 2010 according to the Club of Innovators and will receive comprehensive support in 2011. The responsibility for choosing the second winner fell on the chairman of the expert council Natalia Borisovna Petrova, director of the Patent Law Firm Neva-Patent, since both Andrei Zlatov and Alexander Katsay scored the same number of points.

    The final list of winners looks like this:
    1. Andrey Samokhvalov, Cleaning anilox rolls for printers
    2. Alexander Katsay, Touch gas analyzer
    3. Andrey Zlatov, Fiber Optic Multiplexers

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    See you in 2011, in which you will find interesting innovations from the Club of Innovators.

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