Techno-College Innovation Award

PART I: Contact Details

Your name and FULL contact details, including e-mail address:

NAME: 
First Name   Last Name

ADDRESS:

EMAIL:

WEBSITE (if relevant to your application):

Name and FULL contact details of the person, companY or organisation you are nominating:
if you are nominating an organisation or company, please tell us the names and titles fo the person(s) most responsible for the innovation.

NOMINEE NAME:

First Name   Last Name

NOMINEE ADDRESS:

NOMINEE EMAIL:

PART II: Executive Summary

II-1 What, briefly, is your innovation?  (please limit your response here to fewer that 50 words):

II-2 What is the current situation in the field in which your innovation appears?  (please limit your response here to fewer that 50 words):

II-3 What is the problem with this situation that your innovation is seeking to address? (please limit your response here to fewer that 50 words):

II-4 How does your innovation address this situation? (please limit your response here to fewer that 50 words):

II-5 What is particularly novel or noteworthy about your innovation? (please limit your response here to fewer that 50 words): 

PART III: Detailed Description

III-1 Please explain the innovation. (explain in detail) 

III-2 What, exactly is novel about the innovation?  (Please explain how the innovation could potentially impact the practice of cardiovascular surgery and how does it go beyond marginal improvements on something that already exists?)

III-3 Please state if the innovation is patented, copyrighted, published in a technical journal, or otherwise 'on the record' with any recognised arbiters of innovation.

III-4 Please describe any practical results that the innovation has acheived to date, such as sales, profits, users, citations, etc.

PLEASE SUBMIT THIS FORM AND ANY SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION*
BY SEPTEMBER 1 2009
*supporting documentation should be sent by email to info@eacts.co.uk