Deadline: 4 August 2014
The InnoCentive is accepting ideas on determining longevity or life expectancy of people under the Ideation Challenge. The InnoCentive or the Seeker may request additional information and reasonable assistance regarding the proposed solution if deemed necessary.
Prizes
The best submission received before 17 July 2014 will receive Guaranteed Early Award worth $3000.
The best submissions(s) will be provided $12000 total. One of the award will be above $5000 and no awards will be less than $2000. The winners of other awards are also eligible for this award.
Solution Criteria
- Target Population
- Must be applicable to adults of both genders
- Must include healthy individuals as well as people with known medical conditions
- Use
- Method must be transparent and verifiable
- Must create accurate output comparable to standardized methods
- Amenable to algorithm creation with other demographic or medical data
- Data
- Must utilize currently available data set(s)
- Must be relatively easy to obtain with permission of the individual
- May include medical history, but non-traditional sources will be viewed more favorably
- May include an option to acquire self-reported information (e.g. mobile app)
- Ideas and technologies from all sources will be considered, including those requiring internal development or licensing/partnering/acquisition
Eligibility Criteria
- The proposed solution must be an original work of the entrant. Third-party content (such as writing, text, graphics, artwork, logos, photographs, dialogue from plays, likeness of any third party, musical recordings, clips of videos, television programs or motion pictures) cannot be used without obtaining the rights to use them. If third-party content is used with consent in the proposed solution, the rights of the third-party must not be violated while the Seeker uses the entered idea/solution.
- No person or entity other than the entrant should have any right, title or interest in any part of the Proposed Solution.
- All persons engaged to work on the proposed solution should have given written consent to the entrant to submit the solution for unlimited, royalty-free use, exhibition and other exploitation in any manner and in any and all media, whether now existing or hereafter discovered, throughout the world, in perpetuity; they should have provided written permission to include their name, image or pictures in or with the proposed solution; they should have no right to claim the proposed solution in any kind; there should be no conditions that create any obligations in the use, exhibition or exploitation of the proposed solution.
For more information, please visit Novel Approaches for Predicting Individual Life Expectancy.
