Melitta Swirl | Innovation Contest

Table of Contents

1. Contest Topic
2. Domestic Smells Odor Circle
3. Link Collection - Topic: Domestic Smell / Odor
4. Timeline
5. Submission of ideas
6. Criterias for the ideas
7. Submission of challenges
8. Discussion
9. Evaluation
10. Registration
11. Terms & Conditions

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Link Collection – Topic: Domestic Smell / Odor

1. en.wikipedia.org
2. www.wackyhometips.com
3. www.lotsofessays.com
4. greekfood.about.com
5. www.thefreelibrary.com
6. www.senseofsmell.org
7. www.cf.ac.uk
8. www.hhmi.org
9. www.rsc.org
10. www.housewifextreme.com

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Timeline

1. Start of contest phase: 16.11.2009
2. Deadline for submission of ideas challenges: 21.12.2009 11.01.2010
3. Jury meeting: 04.02.2010 22.02.2010
4. Announcement of winners: 05.02.2010 08.03.2010

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Submission of ideas

If you decide to submit an idea, you can contribute by an easy-to-use toolkit. With the toolkit, each member can contribute own ideas easily and in a standardized format which enables other participants to comprehend the idea’s essence and to identify interesting aspects, shortcomings and potential for further elaboration.
You just have to follow four steps:

1. Get informed and learn more about the topic!
2. Describe your idea by filling out the form
3. Upload additional images and attachments (optional)
4. Add TAGs (optional)
5. Submit your idea and share it on facebook, twitter or any other social network! (sharing is optional, but recommended)

After the completion of your submission in the toolkit, the idea is displayed in the idea pool.

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Criteria for the ideas

The following criteria will be applied to judge the ideas from the community:

1. Creativity
2. Level of elaboration of the idea
3. Fit to the topic

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Submission of challenges

If you like to submit a challenge, you can enter it as well by an easy-to-use toolkit. The toolkit is quite similar to the idea entry toolkit and guides you through the entry process. After the completion of the submission in the toolkit, the challenge is displayed in the pool of challenges.
The following steps have to be completed in order to enter an challenge:

1. Get informed and learn more about the topic!
2. Describe your challenge by filling out the form
3. Upload additional images and attachments (optional)
4. Add TAGs (optional)
5. Submit your challenge and share it on facebook, twitter or any other social network! (sharing is optional, but recommended)

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Discussion

In order to solve problems and get inspired by the other community members, the discussion is very important for everyone. A flourishing community will encourage your own ideas and enhance your thoughts!

Founded on your activity on the platform you gain a certain kind of value, which is called your “Activity-Index”. Besides the submission of ideas, your social activity is respected, too! That means, leaving messages to other participants, voting for ideas and evaluating them lets you gather points in your Activity-Index. After the contest phase, the three most active community members will be rewarded with great prizes!

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Evaluation

The evaluation process consists of 2 steps:

1. Community Evaluation
   
   Participants of the contest can evaluate challenges and ideas of other contestants in a community vote by clicking a “thumbs-up” or “thumbs-down” button on two categories.
   
   Evaluation of challenges
   
   
   1. I also have this problem
   2. I would like to see a solution to this problem
   
   Evaluation of ideas
   
   
   1. I like this idea
   2. I would use this idea
   
   The rating on both categories is displayed within idea pool by showing the percentage of positive votes. This percentage is also displayed in the preview of ideas and challenges by "Popularity" where both ratings are combined.
   
   In contrast to the other functions of the platform, the community evaluation tool is only activated for each member with the confirmation of the user’s email in order to avoid fraud with multiple accounts.
   
   
2. Jury Evaluation
   
   The jury determines the final winners and is urged to evaluate the creativity and quality of the idea with respect to the contest topics and goals. The jury can consider objective criteria such as feasibility but is also able to take account of more subjective matters such as the creativity.
   
   Process: The community votes and the detailed evaluation serve as filter mechanisms for the jury members yet do not have direct influence on the determination of the winning ideas. As a result, the jury is independent from the evaluation done by the community and experts and its judgment therefore is more flexible and might be more accurate for determining the final winners.
   The jury members will discuss the ideas and thereby mind varying views while the opinions of external judges should be heard in particular.

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Registration

In order to participate in the contest, you have to register. As a registered user you can contribute your ideass and become a candidate for the prizes and also read, evaluate and comment on other ideas. To finalize your registration, you have to agree to the Terms and Conditions.
To register, you must take the following steps:

1. Login information (mandatory)
2. Personal information (optional)
3. Recommendation of the competition to your networks and friends (optional)
4. Agreement with the Terms and Conditions of the contest (mandatory)

After your registration you will receive a confirmation email.

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Terms and conditions

To be eligible to take part in the contest, submit ideas and win one of the prizes. Remember you must become a registered user and agree with the terms and conditions of the contest.

The whole contest phase is being charged by the HYVE Innovation Community GmbH.

HYVE is a German innovation agency dealing with customer integration into the product innovation process. Feel free to get all important information about HYVE on their website, or contact them directly.

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