2024 IEEE Entrepreneurship Impact Award

IEEE Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce applications for the IEEE Entrepreneurship Impact Award will open on 01 May 2024.

This award will recognize an individual who has had a significant impact on the engineering-driven entrepreneurial ecosystem. The accomplishments of the candidate should be of “significant importance” and should have made a distinguishing contribution to the entrepreneurial ecosystem of a country/region.

Eligibility:

• Both IEEE Members and Non-IEEE Members may self-apply or be nominated by others
• Candidates cannot be members of the IEEE Entrepreneurship Awards Committee neither nor a member of the IEEE Entrepreneurship Steering Committee.
• The IEEE Entrepreneurship Impact Award Recipient must be willing to provide IEEE with continual updates on their entrepreneurial journey.
• Candidates must not be past recipients of the IEEE Entrepreneurship Impact Award.
• Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulations established in IEEE and Society/Council governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4 on Awards Limitations.

Nominee Solicitation:

• Nominations will be submitted via the IEEE Entrepreneurship Impact Award Nomination form
• Self-nominations are accepted
• Nominators cannot be members of the IEEE Entrepreneurship Awards Committee
• Nominations should comply with IEEE Policies and restrictions on awards. Incidents of misconduct including, but not limited to, violations of IEEE’s publication policies, will be strongly considered by the awards committee and may be grounds for denial of an award or leadership position.  

Award recipients will be scored and selected based on the following judging criteria: 

• Entrepreneurial Spirit
• Value creation 
• Impact
• Sustainability

The person/team will receive an honorarium of $2000 USD and a plaque commemorating their achievement.

Submissions will be accepted through 31 October 2024 followed by a thorough review.

The recipient will be selected by 08 November and announced during the last week of November.