SRT Innovation Contest - YEAR 3
Food Waste Reduction and Food Loss Technologies
This year’s SRT Innovation Contest focuses on ctechnologies that helps food loss and waste reduction.
According to the Department of Science and Technology – Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI) 1,717 metric tons of food are wasted every day in the Philippines and this wastage adds to the growing hunger in the country. Thus, patent information could be a tool to find SRTs to address the growing population and the increased food loss and wastage.
To ensure that the activities are demand-driven and respond to a real need for specific technologies on food losses and food waste reduction, the IP Business Services and Development Division (IPBSDD) of IPOPHL, will conduct a study and publish the patent information-based technical report and encourage participation of individuals and industries in the Innovation Contest and Technology Expo and Symposium to showcase their innovations.
Food loss and waste reduction technologies may include:
- digital agricultural technologies for food loss and waste prevention and reduction;
- food processing technologies;
- contributes to consumer behavior to reduce food loss and waste
The Innovation Contest and Technology Expo and Symposium is a venue for technologies to be presented to potential adaptors/investors that will propel their commercialization. It recognizes Filipino citizens who contribute to the development of innovative and creative solutions to problems the local community or nation face.
- Student Category
- Professional Category
To be eligible for the innovation contest, the innovative and creative solutions to the Philippines food loss and waste must be a patentable technology or subject matter, meeting the following general criteria:
- The individual must be a Filipino citizen or a group of individuals must be composed of at least one (1) Filipino citizen.
- The nominated technologies must:
- have the potential to reduce food loss and wastage;
- must be new and innovative;
- have commercial potential; and
- be socially relevant and sustainable
- Has not won any major prize (i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd prize) in any national or regional competition.
- IP protection (Patent, UM) is a plus
- Entries must be submitted via this Google form: not later than 11:59pm, on November 15, 2022. Contestants are required to submit the following in PDF file (if any):
- A copy of the Letters Patent or UM Registration Certificate for granted patents or registered UM (if any)
- A copy of the Registrability Report for registered UM
- A copy of the Patent Application Form or UM Registration Form received by IPOPHL, for pending patent application and UM registration
- All documents submitted on or before November 15, 2022 will undergo a pre-screening evaluation to be conducted by IPOPHL.
- Videos of entries will be posted in the IP Business and Development Divisions Facebook page for the voting process. Automated voting is not allowed. Any violation of this will disqualify the entry.
- All completed entries that passed the pre-screening evaluation will be asked to submit a video presentation of their entries on or before November 22, 2022 and will be judge by the SRT Innovation Contest Panel of Judges on November 25, 2022. The panel of judges may either be from IPOPHL, academe, and other government agencies.
- The panel of judges shall make their decisions based on the following selection criteria:
| Novelty and innovativeness of the technology | 20 points |
| Readiness for commercialization | 40 points |
| Impact and benefits to society Environmental impact |
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| Demonstration/ presentation | 10 points |
Prizes will be given to (12) winners in two (2) categories:
- Student Category
| First Prize | PHP 50,000 |
| Second Prize | PHP 30,000 |
| Third Prize | PHP 15,000 |
| Special Awards: | |
| 1st: | PHP 10,000 |
| 2nd: | PHP 5,000 |
| 3rd: | PHP 3,000 |
- Professional Category
| First Prize | PHP 50,000 |
| Second Prize | PHP 30,000 |
| Third Prize | PHP 15,000 |
| Special Awards: | |
| 1st: | PHP 10,000 |
| 2nd: | PHP 5,000 |
| 3rd: | PHP 3,000 |
Special award will be given to the most engaged (reactions + comments + shares) video in each category.
Rules
Individuals or a group of individuals may submit multiple entries. The entries may be the work of the same people.
Participation in the competition does not waive nor transfer the intellectual property rights of the owners to IPOPHL. All persons involved in the judging and administration of the competition shall sign a non-disclosure agreement to ensure that there will be no prejudicial disclosure of the intellectual property yet to be filed for protection after the competition. However, titles and a short description of the winning entries may be publicized.
Entries submitted and all supporting documents shall be deleted after the end of the competition.
By participating in the competition, individuals or group of individuals agrees to be fully and unconditionally bound by the rules and mechanics of this competition.
Employees of IPOPHL and immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of the employees are not eligible to participate in the competition. In addition, the individual or group of individuals agrees to accept IPOPHL’s decisions relating to the content of this competition as final and binding.
Winning the competition is not, in any way, a guarantee that the technology will receive a patent grant or utility model registration from IPOPHL or any other entity in any jurisdiction, and if the owner or the Intellectual Property rights holder should he/she decide to file a patent or utility model application must comply to all the requirements, including the payment of the required fees.
Presentation Guidelines
- Contestants with qualified entries will be asked to submit a 5-min video presentation explaining their entries.
- The 5 -minute presentation videos about their entries will be used in the SRT Symposium and online exhibition.
In preparing for the video presentation, contestants must focus on highlighting the following:- Brief description of the technology
- Creative breakthrough of the technology which includes the advantages over existing technology
- Commercial viability of technology focusing on the potential earnings which may be generated from commercializing the technology
- Social and environmental impact of the technology
- Timeline for the technology and the prospects the contestants envision on its progress (i.e. commercialization needs, future collaborations, target goals, etc.)
- Other information relevant to the entries (if any)
Timetable
- Submission of entries: July 15 – Nov 15, 2022
- Pre-screening and evaluation by IPOPHL: November 22, 2022
- Final judging of entries: November 25, 2022
- Presentation of all entries and announcement of winners during the SRT Symposium: November 29, 2022