The Centre for Scientific and Technological Information of the Slovak Republic announces the competition THE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AWARD IN SLOVAKIA 2023 and invites scientific and research institutions to participate in the 11th year of the nationwide competition.

The competition takes place in three categories:

INNOVATION – is intended for unique research results of the scientific community from public scientific research institutions that are applicable in practice and have undergone or are undergoing the process of intellectual property protection and commercialization.
The award will be given to: the originator or the originator team.

INNOVATOR – recognises originators or originator collectives with an exemplary approach to the process of protecting the outputs of scientific research and subsequent transfer into practice.
The award will go to: the originator or originator collective.

ADVANCEMENT IN THE FIELD OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER – the nomination can be made for an achievement with a beneficial impact in the field of technology transfer in Slovakia, or a specific case showing signs of a systematic approach to the protection and commercialization of intellectual property by a local technology transfer centre or similar organizational unit of a scientific research institution, or individuals from among researchers of public scientific research institutions.
The award will go to: the person/team or organisational unit of the public research institution responsible for technology transfer.

Nominations for the competition may be submitted by representatives of technology transfer centres (or similar units) and individuals from among researchers of public research institutions until 31 August 2023.

Nominations for the competition can be sent electronically to the e-mail address sutaztt@cvtisr.sk via the NOMINATION FORM.

The size of the e-mail must not exceed 5 MB.

Only those nominations that meet the conditions of the competition specified in the COMPETITION STATUS and are also delivered with a written consent to the processing of personal data of the nominees, which is an integral part of the nomination form, may be included in the competition.

The winners of the individual categories of the TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AWARDS 2023 will be announced at a social evening to be held during the COINTT 2023 conference in October this year.

More information about the competition can be found on the NPTT website.

Thank you in advance and we look forward to receiving your nominations.