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Nokia Bell Labs Prize for innovative ideas in ICT, 2023
Friday, March 29, 2024

Nokia Bell Labs Prize for innovative ideas in ICT, 2023

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 TYPE :Prize
 OPEN TO : Specific countries
STATUS : Closed

Applications are opened for the Nokia Bell Labs Prize for innovative ideas in ICT. This Prize is a competition for innovators from participating countries around the globe that seeks to recognize proposals that “change the game” in the field of information and communications technologies by a factor of 10, and provides selected innovators the unique opportunity to collaborate with Bell Labs researchers to help realize their vision.

If you have a game-changing idea and are interested in developing it with leading Nokia Bell Labs researchers, you have come to the right place.

Program Details

  • Organizer: Nokia.
  • The Challenge: The competition is looking for game-changing and impactful ideas that have the potential to change the way we live, work and communicate with each other.
  • Number of Prizes: 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes.
  • Duration: One time.
  • Eligible countries: Open to citizens of the following countries: United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada (except Quebec), China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom.

Nokia Bell Labs Prize Benefits

Bell Labs will be awarding the following prices.

  • A first prize of one hundred thousand United States dollars ($US 100,000).
  • A second prize of fifty thousand United States dollars ($US 50,000).
  • A third prize of twenty-five thousand United States dollars ($US 25,000).

All three winners will also be considered for the unique opportunity to work within the world-renowned Bell Labs to further explore their ideas, following the end of the competition.

Nokia Bell Labs Prize Eligibility

This prize is open to all eligible applicants who register and submit proposals in the general areas of information and communications technologies. Participants must meet the following criteria:

  1. Own their ideas
  2. Be 21 years of age or older
  3. Possess a bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degree
  4. Employees, partners, and consultants of Sponsor and its affiliates and their immediate family members are not eligible to participate in the Contest
  5. Interns employed by Nokia or Nokia Bell Labs or their affiliates are eligible to participate
  6. Reside in one of the listed participating countries.

Note : Teams of up to four are allowed to participate, provided each member of the team meets the eligibility requirements.

Evaluation Criteria

Ideas will be evaluated by Bell Labs researchers based on the following 3 criteria:

  • 10x Innovation Potential – How is your proposal novel – what has not been done before, what is the “out of the box” thinking that could result in a 10x change in performance (e.g., speed/throughput, distance, latency, cost, energy efficiency or simplicity)?
  • Technical Merit – How technically sound is your proposal? On what current principles and capabilities does it depend versus further/future advancements and innovations?
  • Feasibility– Can a proof of concept, simulation, or demonstration be built in the course of the competition? What is required to do so? In order to build a commercially viable (revenue and profit-generating) solution, what more would be required?

The finalists who present to the Judging Panel will also be evaluated on a 4th criterion, which focuses on the commercial value proposition:

  • Business Impact – What is the magnitude of the new ICT-related business created by the proposal? How soon could it be brought to market and how differentiated/unique is the proposition?

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Application instructions

Interested applicants who would like to apply for this corporate program should click on the apply button below and follow the instructions to submit their applications.

Stage One

In Stage One, you will be requested to formulate an idea (max 250 words) related to the field of information and communications technologies. You will have the option to attach 3 pages of text and/or images to illustrate your concept.

In the submission form, an indicative list of categories related to communications technologies has been outlined. Please select the one that best matches your idea. The list is not restrictive and you are free to indicate a different category.

Categories: Web Applications, Cloud Services, Information Theory, Coding Theory, Computational Sciences, Cryptography, Distributed Systems, Data Privacy, Mathematics of Networks, Modulation Schemes, Optical Systems or Components, Communications Systems, Network Protocols, Security, Network Architecture, RF design, Sustainability, Wireless, Fixed Network technologies, Software-Defined Networks, Virtualization Technologies, Real-time Analytics, search algorithms, Self-Optimizing Networks, Inference systems.

Stage Two

Finalists from Stage 1 will be assigned a Bell Labs researcher as a Partner (BLRP) to help them strengthen their idea and turn it into a robust proposal.

Your BLRP will help you develop each element of your idea – from your vision until initial thoughts on implementation through the description of context, risks, and impact. The objective is to have a strong and complete proposal that selected finalists can present in person to the Bell Labs Judging Panel.

The deadline to submit nominations is . For more details on the Nokia Bell Labs Prize for innovative ideas in ICT, please visit the official page. To be the first to see latest opportunities, please follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram.

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