About the Awards

Application for Entry

ELIGIBILITY

Entries for the Awards are open to Botswana inventors and innovators. This could be individuals, students, companies, designers and design teams. Entries may be accompanied by design drawings, models, promotional materials or any other information on the performance of the product in the market.

CONFIDENTIALITY

Where applicable, details of any intellectual property rights such as patents, industrial designs etc, that are pending or in effect should be submitted with the prototype. This will be used for informing BOTEC about existing claims. The panel of judges and administrators of the NDDA shall handle all entries with the strictest confidence.

 

 

 

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The National Design for Development Awards are not a patents award scheme, nor are they guarantees of any performance standard. Therefore BOTEC cannot accept accountability for the product performance or design originality should any dispute arise.