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2012 IERA Call for Nominations/Applications

The Call for nominations to the 2012 IEEE/IFR Invention and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation Award is out. The presentation will be at the 2012 IEEE/IFR Joint Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation on 23 May 2012 in Munich, Germany. The IERA Forum will be hosted by the International Federation of Robotics and held in conjunction with the Automatica Trade Show in Munich.

2011 IERA Call for Nominations/Applications

The Call for nominations to the 2011 IEEE/IFR Invention and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation Award is out. The presentation will be at the 2011 IEEE/IFR Joint Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation on 9 May 2011 in Shanghai China. The IERA Forum will be hosted by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

2010 IERA

The new Call for nominations to the next IEEE/IFR Invention and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation Award is out. The presentation will be at the 2010 IEEE/IFR Joint Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation on 8 June 2010 in Munich. The IERA Forum will be hosted by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) and held in conjunction with the IFR's 41st International Symposium on Robotics and the 6th German Conference on Robotics. The announcement together with our partner organisation IFR reads:

IERA Award 2010 - Call for Applications IEEE/IFR Invention & Entrepreneurship Award

The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE RAS) jointly sponsor the Invention and Entrepreneurship Award. The purpose of this award is to highlight and honor the achievements of the inventors with value creating ideas and entrepreneurs who propel those ideas into world-class products. At the same time the joint disposition of the award underlines the determination of both organizations to promote stronger collaboration between robotics science and robotics industry.

Up to one award will be given annually to the individual(s) whose entrepreneurial efforts have taken an earlier conceptual innovation and evolved it into a commercialized product. The winner(s) are expected to present the underlying principles of the concept, how they transformed this into the product, and demonstrate the commercial product realized from the concept. Just a prototype product or proof of concept is not acceptable.

The award consists of a plaque and a $2,000 honorarium. In case there are multiple winners, each recipient will receive a plaque and the honorarium will be equally split between the recipients.

Nominees will be solicited through an award sub-committee and in response to a general call for nominees. The Call for Applications containing detailed information can be downloaded as pdf (38 kb).

The deadline for submitting applications is 31 March 2010.

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