Awards

The following awards will be offered:

• 1st Prize US $15,000
• 2nd Prize US $5,000
• 3rd Prize US $2,000

The prize-winning Submissions, together with others considered to be of outstanding merit, will be published in an IEC Commemorative Publication. In addition, the top Submissions will be made available to the combined international memberships of the IEC and the IEC Centenary Challenge partner organisations – the Institution of Engineering and Technology, IEEE and VDE – of more than 500,000 academic, technical and business professionals. The winning Submissions will also be distributed and recommended to learned international technical and business journals for worldwide publication.

Judging Criteria

All Submissions complying with the IEC Centenary Challenge Rules were reviewed and judged on the following criteria:

• Demonstration of clear linkage between standardisation and business development: Including references to electronic, electrical and information technology standardisation.
• Originality: Providing a novel and in-depth understanding of the linkage between standardisation and business development.
• Quality: Showing a level of refinement that is of a publishable quality.
• Readability and Clarity: Enabling an audience untrained in the field of standardisation or economics to understand the key points being made.
• Sophistication and depth of research: Relating the original finding to the relevant scholarly literature.