2ND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE AND INNOVATION EXHIBITION 2019 (IRCIE2019)

Speech by Head of Jury

2ND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE AND INNOVATION EXHIBITION 2019 (IRCIE2019)

TOWARDS INNOVATION AND DIVERSITY IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

Malaysian Institute of Industrial Technology (UniKL MITEC)

 

Innovation and Exhibition competition

Overall: 61 participants

Categories

1. Social Science; A1 (7) & B1
2. Science, Engineering & Technology; A2 (17) & B2 (13)
   1. Higher Institution; B1 & B2
   2. Professional & Postgraduate; B1 & B2
3. Secondary School; C1 (18)
4. Primary School; C2 (4)

 

Criteria for judging

1. Creativity and innovation
2. Implementation stage
3. Commercialization & Replicability
4. Efficient
5. Significant
6. Research
7. Poster
8. Additional
   1. Intellectual property
   2. Award
   3. Publication/Technical report
   4. Collaboration

Judges

• From different background: Electrical engineering, Business school, teacher and all of them are experience in innovation competition.

Awards:

1. Gold
2. Silver
3. Bronze

Additional awards:

1. Best Innovation Award
2. Best Innovation Award
3. The Most Promising Award
4. The Most Promising Award
5. The Most Excellent Innovation Award
6. The Most Outstanding Innovation Award

 

For those who wins congratulation, however you still need to improve it, collaborate with others and finally commercialize it.

For those who do not win or do not get gold medal, your idea is good but maybe there is lack of judging criteria.

 

“Turning ideas into innovation” by Bugstan. According to this book, there are 7 steps in commercializing your idea/invention:

1. Start by conceptualizing an idea
2. Check your ideas
3. Raise fund for your project
4. Make a prototype/working model
5. Filing a patent or IPR
6. Do a valuation of your invention
7. Commercialization

 

Final words, keep on innovating, inspiring the innovative minds and be an entrepreneur.