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Ypsomed Innovation Award

Promotion of knowledge and technology transfer at universities in Espace Mittelland.

Ypsomed Innovation Award


Objective

The Ypsomed Innovation Fund Foundation aims to motivate innovative and entrepreneurial teams or individuals to include market needs in their scientific work and to translate their developments into products or services on the market. The work presented should therefore contain innovative and economically feasible processes, methods, products or services.

Prizes and prize money

The Ypsomed Innovation Award is endowed as follows:
1. Prize: CHF 50 000.–
2. Prize: CHF 30 000.–
3. Prize: CHF 20 000.–

The winners of the Ypsomed Innovation Award 2022 announced

Admission

The innovation presented must have been predominantly developed by a university and must meet the objectives of the award donor. Students, assistants, lecturers as well as research and work teams of universities based in Espace Mittelland with the urge to become entrepreneurs or newly found companies which have merged from this environment and would like to implement a new project are invited to participate.

The Ypsomed Innovation Award can also be awarded to a consortium that shows how an extraordinary output has been achieved collectively.

Conditions of participation

Conditions of participation (PDF 40KB)

Application form (PDF 50KB)

Brochure Innovation Award (PDF 195KB)

Logo Innovationsfonds (PNG 30KB)

Projects

Projects that can be submitted are products, services, own innovations, doctoral and diploma theses as well as project and semester papers in German, French or English.

Content

  • Personal information about the author and the team members
  • Problem statement
  • Summary of the work accomplished
  • Discussion of the technical realisation potential
  • Proof of economic viability

Evaluation criteria

  • Innovation potential and originality
  • Market implementation potential
  • Technical realisation potential
  • Comprehensibility of the dossier

Jury

The jury evaluates the submitted work and selects the winners. The jury’s deliberations are confidential.

  • Prof. Dr. Lukas Rohr, Physicist (Chair)
  • Prof. Dr. Artur Baldauf, Director Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at University of Berne
  • Regula Buob, CEO and founder SoftTec Buob
  • Hanspeter Gerber, Partner Assurance, PwC Switzerland
  • Ueli Moser, until 2019 Head of Concept Development Ypsomed AG
  • Dr. Christoph Rindlisbacher, Start-up Coach
  • Cordelia Trümpy, Innovation & Communication Diabetes Center Berne

Selection procedure and award ceremony

The jury evaluates the project dossiers received. The authors of the short-listed projects will be invited to a presentation to the jury between mid-November and mid-December. Subsequently, the jury decides on the three winners and invites them to the award ceremony. The award ceremony takes place in January at the PwC New year’s reception in Berne.

Decisions of the jury

The decisions of the jury are irrevocable. By registering for the competition, the participants unconditionally accept these regulations. Any legal action is precluded. Projects that have not been awarded a prize will be rejected without justification.

Confidentiality

Before the award ceremony, the project contents are absolutely confidential. Except for the joint communication during the award ceremony, all project content will be treated confidentially.



Award winners

The Ypsomed Innovation Award promotes innovations and entrepreneurial activities in Espace Mitteland. With the prize money, the Ypsomed Innovation Fund supports the step into independence or further growth steps. This is impressively demonstrated by examples form recent years.

2022

machineMD
Diagnosis of various illnesses by analysing the movements of eyes and pupils with a Virtual Reality Headset.

www.machinemd.com

2020

Fredrick Johnson Joseph (picture)
and Dr. David Bervini
SurgeonsLab

A Realistic Microsurgical Simulator for Brain Surgeries.

www.surgeonslab.com

Interview with Fredrick Johnson Joseph von SurgeonsLab

2018

Dr. Samuel Zürcher and team
Certus Diagnostics

Molecular rapid test platform for reliable on-site detection of specific pathogens.

www.certusdiagnostics.com

Previous award winners from 2006 - 2022

Previous award winners (PDF 70KB)

Foundation Board

President

Simon Michel
CEO Ypsomed Holding AG
Brunnmattstrasse 6
3401 Burgdorf
Schweiz

Member

Lukas Frösch
Director Entrepreneurship
Swiss Economic Forum |
NZZ Connect

Managing Director

Patrick Schär
CEO
TecMed AG
Technikumstrasse 2
3400 Burgdorf