The following awards (with invitation to receive the award in London ) will be offered:

The prize-winning Submissions, together with others considered to be of outstanding merit, will be published in an IEC Commemorative Publication. In addition, the top Submissions will be made available to the combined international memberships of the IEC and the IEC Centenary Challenge partner organizations – the IET (formerly the IEE), IEEE and VDE – of +500,000 academic, technical and business professionals. The winning Submissions will also be distributed and recommended to learned international technical and business journals for worldwide publication.

Submissions considered to be of exceptional merit will be reviewed by the Executive Review Council for final judging and nomination for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Prizes.

The ERC consists of eminent, distinguished leaders from Government, Academia, Business and the Media and will be, by its composition, representative of the world’s principal industrialized areas i.e. the Americas, Asia and Europe:

• Dr. Arden L. Bement, Jr.
  Director, US National Science Foundation

• Dr. Takuo Sugano
  Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University and Chairman, Board of Trustees of Toyo University

• Prof. Klaus Wucherer
  Member of Central Managing Board, Siemens AG

• Tom Standage
  Technology Editor, The Economist Newspaper

All Submissions complying with the IEC Centenary Challenge Rules will be reviewed and judged on the following criteria:

• Demonstration of clear linkage between standardization and business development
  Including references to electronic, electrical, and information technology standardization.

• Originality
  Providing a novel and in-depth understanding of the linkage between standardization and business development.

• Quality
  Showing a level of refinement that is of a publishable quality.

• Readability and Clarity
  Enabling an audience untrained in the field of standardization or economics to understand the key points being made.

• Sophistication and depth of research
  Relating the original finding to the relevant scholarly literature.

While the domain of the IEC Centenary Challenge is not limited to the technical sectors covered by the IEC and its partners, preference will be given to those Submissions that include references to electronic, electrical, and information technology standardization.