Innovation Track Judging Mechanism

Application Requirements:

The innovation must not have been previously submitted for this award in prior cycles.

The innovation must not be a medication, pharmaceutical product, or laboratory test.

The submission must be an innovation, not a research study or project.

Evaluation Criteria:

Team's Ability: The team's ability to identify the challenge and capitalize on it.

Target Audience: Clarity and size of the innovation's target audience.

Note: Evaluation increases with a larger target audience, especially within Saudi Arabia.

Understanding of Needs: The team's understanding of the target audience's needs and relevant scientific studies related to the challenge.

Problem Scope: The magnitude of the problem that the innovation will address.

Note: Evaluation increases with the magnitude of the problem, especially within Saudi Arabia.

Innovation and Originality:

The creativity and uniqueness of the idea.

How the innovation differs from similar existing innovations.

Impact and Influence:

The idea's potential impact on the healthcare system and public health in Saudi Arabia.

Scientific Basis:

The scientific foundation upon which the innovation idea is based and its alignment with modern developments in healthcare within Saudi Arabia.

Benefit to Humanity:

The innovation's benefit to humanity and the world as a whole.

Prototype Effectiveness:

The effectiveness of the product prototype and its alignment with the core innovation idea and the challenge it aims to solve.

Prototype to Product Transition:

The feasibility of converting the prototype into a real product/service/mechanism/innovative system.

• Ease of conversion to a product.
• Ease of product use.
• Number of product users.
• The innovation's competitive edge as a product.

Product Viability:

The product's economic or service feasibility in healthcare and public health.

Feasibility Evidence:

Facts and statistics used to predict the product's feasibility (return on investment).

Intellectual Property Registration:

Registration of the product's intellectual property.

With the Saudi Intellectual Property Authority (or international bodies such as USPTO or other intellectual property organizations).