ASU | College of Public Programs | 2014 – 2015 Innovation Challenge
2014 – 2015 Innovation Challenge[1]
Use this template to format and submit your team’s 2-page Executive Summary.
Do not change font size, line and paragraph spacing, margins or heading styles. Word or PDF submissions are accepted.
Do not exceed 2 pages. Any content over 2 pages will not be reviewed.
URLs pointing to websites, images and videos can be included to provide context for the proposal. However, the proposal will be judged on the content of this executive summary and the 10 page deck.
Content requirements
Please include:
§ The team email contact
§ School or College of team members
· Names of all team members and ASURITE ID for each team member.
Please describe:
§ Your project, prototype, venture, or community partnership idea.
§ The need for your idea and the public problem your innovation addresses.
§ The impact of your idea including the potential of your idea to grow or scale, and the metrics you will use to measure your impact and success.
§ The amount of Innovation Challenge funding you are seeking to implement your idea.
Judging Criteria:
The judging panel will evaluate all valid submissions based on the following criteria:
· Style: sentence structure, grammar, spelling
· Clear: logical argument, clearly articulated language
· Persuasive: do the recommendations follow from the premises and analysis?
· Referenced: are assertions supported with evidence and references?
· Well elaborated: is the idea complete, detailed, and understandable?
· Applied: does the proposal have the potential to effectively solve a real problem? Is there an existing data set, application, partner or setting in which the idea can be applied?
· Feasible: does the proposal align with the client’s needs, and is reasonably implementable?
· Organizational Impact: does the proposal have the potential to have a positive impact on the client organization?
· Transformative: does the idea help to overcome established structures or barriers? is it radical or revolutionary?
· Innovative: is the idea or solution proposed to the problem novel in the context of public policy? does it advance a previous idea?
· Original: is the idea visionary, surprising, and imaginative?
· Engaging: does the idea involve stakeholders as participants?
· Social Value: would the project potentially have a positive social impact? is the idea socially useful, and is it socially acceptable?
· Feasible: can the idea be implemented within reasonable time and budget constraints and currently available technology? Can related resources be sought to help make the project operational? Is the idea workable, implementable or practicable?
There are no explicit weightings for these criteria, but judges will be asked to apply all of them to select proposals that are most likely to lead to successful projects. Not every proposal will meet all the above categories, and will not be penalized if the category was not a reasonable expectation of the proposal.
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[1] Change this title to the title of your proposal. Then delete this footnote.