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| Chennai, Dec 11th, 2009 |
| Villgro Awards is a platform to honour outstanding individuals and other stakeholders of the innovation eco-system for their contribution in developing and disseminating innovations, which benefit society. |
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| Nominations for the Villgro Awards is now open! |
| Fill the nomination forms for the categories below at www.villgro.org/awards |
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Awarded to Enterprises based on the following criteria: | a. | Innovativeness and Societal Impact | | b. | Commercial viability of the enterprise | | c. | Potential for Scalability - in terms of size, quantity and volume | | d. | Potential for Replicability - across geographies |
| Awarded to Investors based on the following criteria: | a. | Innovativeness and Social impact of the investees | | b. | Investment - Number, Size, Nature, Stage and Consistency of such investments in the state of Tamil Nadu | | c. | Investees - Success of the investees in terms of profitability, sustainability and scale | | d. | Non-financial value added services - other services offered to help the enterprise succeed such as networking, strategy etc., |
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Awarded to Incubators based on the following criteria: | a. | Innovativeness and social impact of the investees | | b. | Incubatee - Number, Size, Nature, Stage and Consistency of such Incubatees. | | c. | Success of the incubatees in terms of profitability, sustainability and scale | | d. | Other services offered to help the enterprise succeed such as networking, strategy etc., |
| Awarded to Journalists based on the following criteria: | a. | Relevance and Significance - relevance and significance of the issue chosen. | | b. | Presentation - the style and its ability to influence the target readers, presentation of facts, simplicity of language and logical flow of thoughts | | c. | Quality of research - depth of research and innovativeness of the research methodology |
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Awarded to Individuals or Organizations for their contributions to the field of innovations based on the following criteria: | a. | No of years of work | | b. | Range of contribution - policy advocacy, research to grass-root interventions | | c. | Specific outcomes of his/her contribution | | d. | Credibility and Stature in the sector |
| Awarded to Media based on the following criteria: | 1. | Relevance and Significance - relevance and significance of the issue chosen. | | 2. | Presentation - the style and its ability to influence the target readers, presentation of facts. | | 3. | Extent and quality of coverage. | | |
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