[Participation]
(1) Entrants must be a member of IBDC website and register over the net at http://www.ibdcaward.org
If you participate as a group, you must designate one person to be the group's representative. There is no limit on the number of entries for each participant, but you need to fill out a separate application form with different member account for each entry.
Your member account and password will be used when submitting graphics, documents, and for updating your personal data. Should there be any problem when you register, please contact: Email: ibdc@tbnet.org.tw
Tel: 886-4-24630766 ext. 813
(2) After registration, you may upload your entry at any time up until the deadline.
(3) At the conclusion of the First Round, the International Jury will select the top twenty (20) entries for the Finals.
(4) At the end of the Finals, the rank order of the finalists will be decided.
(5) The final results will be announced at the award ceremony.
[Required Items To Be Submitted]
To take part in the IBDC, you must submit the following for each entry:
(1) You need to be a member of IBDC website and completely filled-out online registration form (http://www.ibdcaward.org) during May 1 to July 15, 2011.
(2) Items for the First Round
Graphic a, b, c, d (each shall be 1024 width x 768 height pixels and less than 500kb RGB color model in the JPEG format) upload before July 15, 2011:
-See "Example" under " Guidelines" from the menu of http://www.ibdcaward.org).
-To ensure that the judging is fair, the submitted items must be in no way identifiable!
a. Description of the entry
In English only, 300~500 words in length.
Contents should include:
<i>Title of Entry
<ii>Concept of Design
<iii>Target Market
<iv>Innovative Features
b. An orthographic layout with dimensions
Mark major dimensions on the front-, side-, and top-view drawings.
c. A structural-design drawing
Show the special structural features of your design. You may give a description in English.
d. A rendering drawing
An interpretative drawing depicting your design, including a background.
The above items must be electronic files and upload to IBDC website from online registration form via your member account.
(3) Items for the Finals
Small-scale model submitted by mail to 17, 37th Rd., Taichung Industry Park,
407 Taichung City, Taiwan, R.O.C. before November 15, 2011:
The selected (top twenty) entries shall be made into small-scale models to enter the Finals. The model's base must be 700mm x 350mm, and the total height of the model and the base must be less than 400mm. The model must be well-packaged. IBDC will not be responsible for any damage or repair. Participants must accept the possibility that evaluation might be affected by damage caused during shipping, and that they can make no appeal. Participants should pay for the costs of sending the model for the final evaluation.
[Frequently Asked Questions, FAQ]
- What is the theme?
A bicycle (i.e., two wheels) driven by human power.
1. Auxiliary power is also acceptable.
2. The two-wheel criterion does not restrict the use of auxiliary wheels for children, the aged, or the handicapped.
Entries must be fit within one or more of the 10 categories below :
* Mountain Bike * City Bike * BMX * Racing Bike *All Terrain Bike
* Electric Bike * Folding Bike * Children's Bike * Exercise Bike * Others
- What is eligible?
All designs must be the entrant’s own original work. Entrants submitting designs, which infringe intellectual or industrial property rights (trade marks, utility models, patents or similar rights) will be excluded from participation in the competition. The qualification of prize-winning entries will be canceled and an official announcement made. The entrant shall be liable for damages and any claims made by third parties, resulting from the infringement of property rights.
- Who is eligible?
All individuals or groups (2~4 persons in each group) interested in the competition are welcome to participate, regardless of nationality, gender, race or age. Staffs of CHC, past Jurors and current Jurors are not eligible.
- How much is the entrance fee?
No entrance fee will be charged.
- Who needs to make a model?
If your entry is selected for the Finals, then you need to make a model.
(or have someone make a model for you).
-Who makes the prototypes?
These are full sized models that can be tested, they are made by IBDC for display at the bike show and other places. The entrants are not involved in making these prototypes.
- What are the criteria?
Entries will be judged on four criteria below.
a. Innovation
novelty of mechanical components, structure design and appearance
b. Manufacturability
manufacturing technology and mass-production feasibility
c. Marketability
safety, cost-effectiveness, and possibility of being well liked
d. Other considerations
appearance, ergonomic considerations and drawing/model presentation, etc.
[Declaration of Intellectual Properties]
Premise：All designs must be the entrant’s own original work；If legal protection for intellectual property rights has been applied for; the holder of the patent rights must be the entrant.
1. To protect the entrants’ intellectual property, the organizer encourages entrants to apply for legal protection for intellectual property rights before they submit their entries.
2. If the participants had applied for legal protection for intellectual property right and this had been approved before the competition (The entrants should pay the necessary expense themselves). The entrants should discuss with the organizer, and sign an agreement, allowing the organizer to commercialize or promote the product.
For any profit earned from intellectual property rights, the entrant will be entitled to 20% of the organizer’s net income from these rights.
3. The organizer has priority to apply for legal protection for intellectual property rights for any entries that have not yet been applied for. If the entries are qualified to apply for legal protection for intellectual property rights directly without modification, the organizer will pay all the necessary expenses for legal protection and the entrants still will be the inventors and should help the organizer to provide necessary documentation during the procedure of applying for legal protection. For any profit earned from intellectual property rights, the inventor will be entitled to 15% of the organizer’s net income from these rights.
4. For entries that have not applied for any legal protection for intellectual property rights, if someone makes improvement to facilitate application for legal protection for intellectual property rights, both entrants and improvers could be the inventors of the design. The entrants should provide the necessary documentation to help the organizer apply for legal protection and the organizer will pay all the necessary expense. For any profit earned from intellectual property, the inventor is entitled to 10% of the organizer’s net income from these rights.
5. Based on the requirements of research and publicity, the entrants grant the organizer all rights to copy, photograph, video-record, publish, display in public or publicize the documents, pictures and files of entries. All entrants are obliged to provide relevant photographs and information regarding entries.
- Other Regulations:
1. The organizer will reject incomplete, inconsistent or improper documents and designs. Furthermore, the organizer will not return submitted document and designs.
2. Entries will not be returned to the entrants, but entrants can make a notation at the time of registration that “The organizer has no right to publicize my entry if the design is not selected for the finals.”
3. The decisions of the juries are final and binding.
4. To defend the fairness of judging, entrants may not publicize their prize-winning entries before the announcement of the results.
5. After the announcement of the results, entrants can publicize their prize-winning entries. In order to integrate and generalize the result of the whole activity, entrants should notify the organizer once their designs are put into the public domain through any media.
6. Entrants should notify the organizer once they sign any agreement with a third party regarding prize-winning entries. The organizer also has to notify entrants once a third party is interested in any prize-winning entries and willing to cooperate.
7. All entrants are regarded as having a full understanding of the regulations for the competition and being willing to comply with every rule.
8. The competition is run and implemented by the Cycling & Health Tech Industry R&D Center (CHC), which exercises all of the rights and obligations of the principle sponsors. Please do not contact the DOIT, MOEA or supporting organizations directly regarding this competition.