The Cade Prize for Innovation is reinvented to reward more inventors!
Since 2010, the Cade Prize has celebrated innovation by identifying, recognizing, and celebrating Florida-based inventors and entrepreneurs, who, through an innovative invention, demonstrate a creative approach to addressing problems in their field of expertise. As one of the largest cash prize competitions for innovation in Florida, the Cade Prize has drawn hundreds of creative thinkers from diverse sectors, from Pensacola to Miami, who enter cutting-edge inventions with real market potential. In 2020, the Cade Prize will award $50,000 in seed-capital and make several important enhancements:
Geography: The Cade Prize has expanded beyond Florida to Alabama and Georgia, enabling more inventors and research universities to highlight their cutting-edge inventions.
Finalists & Prizes: The number of Fibonacci Finalists (16 to 21) and cash Prizes have been increased to generate awareness of more essential innovations.
Leading Research Universities: The Cade Prize will be partnering with even more high-level research institutions across Florida, Alabama, and Georgia.
Eligibility: R1 research universities from Florida, Georgia, and Alabama (13 total) are each eligible to nominate one entry for an automatic slot, as one of the 21 Fibonacci Finalists. R2 universities or other institutions without an automatic slot will automatically advance to become a finalist if they produced an entry in the previous year that made it to the final round.
Other Florida, Alabama, and Georgia inventors and entrepreneurs will complete for remaining Fibonacci Finalist slots. To be eligible, individuals or companies must have no more than $500,000 in outside investment {funding from investors received in exchange for stock, convertible note, or other similar instrument issued by the company (excluding grants, personal funds, in-kind support, competition prizes, or loans from friends and family).
Entry Categories: The Cade Prize call for applications will now include designated Cade Prize entry categories, to address key technology clusters and critical issues impacting the state of Florida: Agriculture/Environmental, Health Care/Bio, IT/Tech, Energy, plus a Wild Card category.
The Cade Prize entry period will open on June 1, 2020, and applications will be accepted through August 1, 2020. Round 1 judging, to determine the 21 Fibonacci Finalists, will be conducted on or about August 11, 2020. On September 30, 2020, final judging and a Cade Prize Awards Ceremony will be held at the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention.
Since 2010, the Cade Prize has celebrated innovation by identifying, recognizing, and celebrating Florida-based inventors and entrepreneurs, who, through an innovative invention, demonstrate a creative approach to addressing problems in their field of expertise. As one of the largest cash prize competitions for innovation in Florida, the Cade Prize has drawn hundreds of creative thinkers from diverse sectors, from Pensacola to Miami, who enter cutting-edge inventions with real market potential. In 2020, the Cade Prize will award $50,000 in seed-capital and make several important enhancements:
Geography: The Cade Prize has expanded beyond Florida to Alabama and Georgia, enabling more inventors and research universities to highlight their cutting-edge inventions.
Finalists & Prizes: The number of Fibonacci Finalists (16 to 21) and cash Prizes have been increased to generate awareness of more essential innovations.
Leading Research Universities: The Cade Prize will be partnering with even more high-level research institutions across Florida, Alabama, and Georgia.
Eligibility: R1 research universities from Florida, Georgia, and Alabama (13 total) are each eligible to nominate one entry for an automatic slot, as one of the 21 Fibonacci Finalists. R2 universities or other institutions without an automatic slot will automatically advance to become a finalist if they produced an entry in the previous year that made it to the final round.
Other Florida, Alabama, and Georgia inventors and entrepreneurs will complete for remaining Fibonacci Finalist slots. To be eligible, individuals or companies must have no more than $500,000 in outside investment {funding from investors received in exchange for stock, convertible note, or other similar instrument issued by the company (excluding grants, personal funds, in-kind support, competition prizes, or loans from friends and family).
Entry Categories: The Cade Prize call for applications will now include designated Cade Prize entry categories, to address key technology clusters and critical issues impacting the state of Florida: Agriculture/Environmental, Health Care/Bio, IT/Tech, Energy, plus a Wild Card category.
The Cade Prize entry period will open on June 1, 2020, and applications will be accepted through August 1, 2020. Round 1 judging, to determine the 21 Fibonacci Finalists, will be conducted on or about August 11, 2020. On September 30, 2020, final judging and a Cade Prize Awards Ceremony will be held at the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention.
