Nokia Open Innovation Challenge offers the opportunity for the bright minded companies to propose the best-in-class products and solutions within the Industrial Automation domain to an international jury. The jury will then select the most advanced and innovative candidates to attend the final event that will be held at primary Nokia location in November at Nokia headquarters. In the final event, these finalists will present their innovative products or solutions to the executive level jury who will then select the winners.
The next generation industrial revolution will not only affect traditional industry operators, but also every single business which has requirements for automation and optimized services. These enterprises are making the leap to a new era of higher productivity and quality with the next generation of connectivity and applications.
NOIC is about evolution and revolution. We are looking for innovations which might be already be established, but with your idea will reach new heights of interest within the industry domain with the right support from Nokia; or innovations which are totally a new ideas and concepts, but might need some tuning to fit the requirements of potential customers.
STRIVE TO HAVE THE Innovative mindset. Big innovations have been done and developed when people have looked beyond the obvious. Think big and out of the box.
NOIC Executive Jury have the power of discretion to allocate the cash prize, $ 175k in total, to the best fitting submission or submissions.
Submissions will be assessed on innovativeness, feasibility and scalability of the idea according to the themes as well as the joint business potential.
Please also take a look at our solution and product catalog and links within the NOIC pages.
The executive jury will also assess the suitability and the fit of the submission with respect to the Nokia Future X Network architecture. This will be the main criteria for finalists and their solutions. Finalists will have an opportunity to get familiar with the Nokia Future X Network concepts later in the NOIC process. We encourage applicants to browse through the available material at the end of themes page.
Additionally we will pay attention to great founding teams, who can demonstrate their deep domain expertise and prove they have the abilities to scale their business globally.
