Open Contest: Spinoff of the Year 2025!

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TIMEFRAME:

• Campaign period: 10 March 2025 - 10 June 2025

• Meeting of the jury and selection of winners: June 10 - June 18

• The official announcement of winners: June 19, 2025, during the Spinoff Europa conference!

Categories:

• Corporate spinoff

• University spinoff

• Academy spinoff

• Government spinoff

Only projects that have successfully passed at least the second stage of technological readiness according to the internationally accepted scale for evaluating the maturity of a newly created technology (Technology Readiness Levels) will be evaluated, and work has begun on the third stage - proof of concept in the experimental environment.

Innovation Areas: Applicant need to propose activities in biotechnology, health, food tech, semiconductors/chips,  artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and VR&AR.

Evaluation criteria:

• Skills of the team, knowledge of the sector, the feasibility of the project;

• The development stage of the product/service;

• Degree of innovation and its defensibility;

• Positioning concerning competitors;

• Consistency with the market and customers’ needs and potential outreach;

• The business potential of the idea;

• Completeness of the documentation presented.

The expected results of the project need to be clear, measurable, realistic, bound to a specific period, and be logical consequences of the planned activities.

Apply below Spinoff Award Application Form!