The INNOspace Masters ideas competition is entering its second round.
Innovative ideas and solutions for the next generation of space travel can be submitted until February 13, 2017.
Under the keyword “Space 4.0”, we are looking for ideas and new concepts with different levels of innovation and maturity in various competition categories that address current user problems and offer innovative ideas for payloads and proposed solutions for optimizing the production of satellites and launch systems.
In this context, the following exemplary focus topics are of particular interest:
- Satellite payload for novel applications and business models
- Platform concepts for making subsystems more flexible
- Development and use of intelligent parts and components as information carriers
- Automation, robotics and error evaluation in manufacturing
- Innovative and cost-efficient drive and ride-share concepts
- Improvements and new development of NDI methods for quality assurance
- New standards for processes and interfaces
Participants can choose from three categories choose the price that best suits the focus of your project and the maturity and innovation level of your idea.
Three special prizes to be awarded
All completed entries for the three special prizes of the INNOspace Masters will be evaluated anonymously by expert juries from the competition partners, and a small group of finalists will be selected. All jury members are required to sign a confidentiality agreement before receiving access to the entries.
The partners in each competition category will invite the nominated finalists to a personal pitch in March and select the best submission in each category. The overall winner of the INNOspace Masters Ideas Competition will then be selected from these entries in the first week of April 2017. Three finalists per competition category will be invited to a personal pitch again on this day.
The criteria
Submissions will be evaluated primarily according to the following criteria:
- Degree of innovation of the proposed solution
- Relevance for the optimization of processes, components or subsystems for networked satellite production and the New Space Economy
- Technological feasibility and maturity of the project
- Technology transfer or market potential of the solution
- Expertise of the team and consortium
Interested parties can submit their ideas from until 13 February 2017 at www.innospace-masters.de submit.
