Assessment criteria

Your application should:

  • Indicate the ways the proposed technology will have a positive economic impact.
  • Provide clear grounds that there is a demonstrable and real market opportunity for the technology.
  • Clearly express what must be undertaken to achieve a commercial outcome from the project.
  • Describe the experience of key personnel; both in the research and development (R and D) process and in the progression to commercialisation.
  • Confirm that access to all prior Intellectual Property Rights necessary for this project have been secured and are owned by the Institution.
  • Include a clear description of the proposed strategy for commercial exploitation of the technology.
  • Be realistic in terms of both the opportunity targeted in the application and the position of the market.
  • Give reasonable project costs and adequately justify them in the application.
  • Clearly articulate the programme of work.