Applications Invited for NBSX Sustainability Challenge 2020

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NBSX Sustainability Challenge

Novartis NBSX team, in partnership with Startup India, invites startups and innovators to apply for the challenge. We are looking at truly disruptive ideas that will eliminate carbon through offset and propel us towards carbon positive.

Eligibility Criteria

The challenge is open to all with a product already in the market and whose innovation can disrupt the traditional methodologies and bring in solutions for the presented problem statements.

Part of success criteria would also be the ability to scale the solution to the larger landscape of Novartis.

• Suitability of product/solution against the problem in hand
• Impact of the solution
• Ease of implementation
• Cost impact and RoI
• Value proposition
• Novelty

Relevant Stakeholder

• Validation Stage Startup
• Early Traction Startup
• Scaling Stage Startup

Relevant Industry

• Non- Renewable Energy
• Renewable Energy
• Green Technology
• Social Impact
• Agriculture
• Others

Incentives:

Non-Fiscal Incentives -

• At least 3 startups will be selected for doing a PoC with Novartis
• At least 1 startup will be selected for a paid pilot opportunity with Novartis
• Mentor-ship from SMEs at Novartis NBSX and Novartis Biome.
• Long term partnership opportunity with Novartis’s different business heads and to scale implementation across 150 countries where Novartis has offices (as appropriate).

Deadline: 12 October, 2020

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