Judging Criteria

A network of 150 international experts from industry and research is entrusted with the evaluation of the ideas submitted to the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2010. The complete submissions will be judged by the expert panel of the region selected by the participants and, if chosen, to the expert panel of the respective special topic sponsor. All experts assigned with the evaluation of the submitted ideas must sign a non-disclosure agreement before the ideas are put forward for evaluation.

The judges will assess the ideas mainly based on the following criteria:

• Benefit of the idea
• Advantage of the idea compared to other existing or traditional solutions
• Technological feasibility of the idea
• Significance of the use of GNSS for the realisation of the idea
• Time it would take to implement this idea (time to market)
• Chances of this idea becoming a commercial success
• Ability to patent the idea
• Legal risks involved in the idea
• Investment potential for the idea
• Innovation level of the idea