IIDA Idea competion 2011 for students, researchers and employees

IIDA is an idea contest for students, researchers and employees at Tampere University, Tampere University of Technology and Tampere Universities of Applied Sciences. IIDA has been organised since year 1994. Nowadays the contest is organised yearly during February and March.

Competition has three series from which you should choose one to continue with supplying the idea:

1. Product ideas and innovations
2. Service ideas and social innovations
3. Business Plans and concepts

To particibate competition you should go to www.hermiayrityskehitys.fi/iida and choose Competition form page to continue submitting the idea.

All proposals have to sent before 8.04.2011 at 23:59.

Total prizes amount to almost 7000 €. Idea owners will be helped on commercialisation process in co-operation with business incubators.

All proposals sent to IIDA will be kept confidential. It is assumed, that the proposer(s) has an exclusive or sole right to ideas and inventions mentioned on proposals. These rights will also be valid, so that neither the jury nor the organisers will get any IPRs of proposed ideas if not otherwise particularly agreed.

IIDA competition is organized by Hermia Yrityskehitys Oy in cooperation with the local Universities and Tampere Region Economic Development Agency Tredea. The competition is sponsored by Tampereen Patenttitoimisto, Tieto Finland Oy and ABB Oy as well as Tekniikan akateemisten liitto, Santen Oy, Hexagon IT Oy and FinnMedi Oy.

More information
Jarno Kolehmainen
Hermia Business Development Ltd.
Hermiankatu 1
33720 Tampere
Mobile +358 40 8288 279
email iida (at) hermiayrityskehitys.fi