PLEASE USE THIS FORM FOR SUBMITTING
AN INNOVATION IDEA FOR IDEA EVALUATION
If you already have a pre-filled submission form describing the questions below, it is perfectly
OK to use that as well to save you your valuable time!
This template includes questions which serve as the foundation for the submission of an idea for the Idea
Evaluation service.
We would like you to answer these questions as thoroughly as possible, and if you need help or further
explanations in this process, we will be happy to help. All answers will be held confidential, as will any
other information pertaining to the idea. The answers will only be provided to the management team,
analysts and selected students at the IEFS (Idea Evaluation and Feasibility Studies)-course. All of these
parties have entered into non-disclosure agreements that can be received upon request.
Furthermore, this report is administratively labelled as a non-published working material, making it not
applicable to the Swedish principle of publishing data stemming from the university.
Please submit your innovative idea before midnight december 21st 2011. Thank you!
Also, feel free to contact us for any questions regarding the Idea Evaluation and Feasibility Study process.
See contact details in the end of this form.
MERIT- AND OWNERSHIP DECLARATION OF THE SUBMITTED IDEA
Name of idea
Description of the idea or innovation. NOTE: The above info, including the contact details below, is
enough for starting the analysis, however, feel free to fill in complementary info on the following
pages. You don’t have to use this template – if you have your own summary use that instead. Thank
you.
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Name of idea owner
(Please include a list of the qualifications requested below for each idea provider and/or group member)
Profession/Speciality
Address
Zip code, location
Telephone, home
Telephone, Mobile
Telephone, work
E-mail
Education and Experience
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ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS
Background
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Give a short description of your idea (or innovation/invention) and its background.
Technology & functionality
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Give a short technical description of your idea (innovation/invention) and its primary
functionality/field of use.
At what technological stage of development is the idea currently? Describe briefly which stages
still need to be completed, and an approximate time estimate for these. To what extent has the
idea and its usage been validated?
Has your idea (innovation/invention) undergone any technical evaluation processes? List and
briefly describe these processes.
Do you consider the idea to have positive transformational effects upon society if realized?
Business idea
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Describe the ”problems” or needs that your idea (innovation/invention) solves, and by what
means your idea solves these problems.
Describe the uniqueness of your idea (innovation/invention) in relation to existing technology or
comparable alternatives.
Describe what use a potential customer will have of your idea (innovation/invention) within one
or several relevant application areas.
Market
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Describe your perception of the current and future target market for your idea
(innovation/invention) and whether this market is mainly local, national or international.
Try to specify which line of business your idea (innovation/invention) is directed towards, and
whether or not you yourself have any experience in that field.
Financing
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Describe whether or not you have applied for and/or have received any form of financing of your
idea (innovation/invention) and from whom.
Environmental Sustainability
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In what ways will the idea (innovation/invention) provide for a more effective way of using the
Earth’s resources?
Has a life cycle assessment been made in regards of the impact of a future application of the idea
(innovation/invention)?
Does the idea (innovation/invention) provide a possibility to enable a fossil-free industry?
Has the innovation/invention a possibility to have components that can be recycled/”upcycled”
in a “cradle-to-cradle” manner or is it reliant on components of limited supply?
Does the applicationof the invention increase biodiversity on a larger scale?
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LEGAL QUESTIONS
Possibility of protection
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If you yourself have developed the idea, have you done this on your own or together with
others?
Have any agreements, oral, written, or otherwise, been established with the other contributors
to the idea?
What aspects of the idea are regulated in these agreements (e.g. ownership, future profits, or
the right to publish)?
If there are no agreements with other idea providers, on what basis do you feel that you have
the right to claim ownership of the idea?
Spreading of Information & value of novelty
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Is the idea in any way protected by any intellectual property rights, including but not limited to
patent(s), patent application(s), copyright(s) or trade secrecy.
If the idea does not have intellectual property protection today, to what extent is the idea
(innovation/invention) publicly known?
Thank you very much for the effort!
Please submit your innovative idea before midnight december 21st 2011. Thank you!
Best Regards,
David Andersson
Innovation Advisor – Transformative and Sustainable Technologies
Chalmers University of Technology & University of Gothenburg
Division MORE – Management of Organizational Renewal and Entrepreneurship
Vera Sandbergs Allé 8, SE 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
david.andersson@entrepreneur.chalmers.se
+ 46 31 786 00 00
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