Selection Criteria

• Innovative business idea
• Benefit to local community and business development
• Potential to emerge as category winner within three-five years
• Ability to attract talent, funds and peer admiration

Parameters

Life Time Achievement Award:
• Path-breaking activities and contributions to the growth of life sciences industry in
• Asia Pacific in the past three-four decades.
• Contribution to the evolution of the life sciences industry in the region
• Inspirer/influencer/visionary role

Person of the Year Award
• Performance of the organization
• Role beyond the company
• Key projects in 2009
• Global initiatives
• Influence on policy making
• Fostering industry harmony
• Stature as a leader & visionary

Entrepreneur of the Year
• Strategic steps that make the company stand out in the crowd in the past two years
• Imaginative business plan which should have innovative products and services
• Business results achieved
• Ability to raise funds
• Ability to attract top human talent

Product of the Year
• Revenue realizations from the product
• Uniqueness
• Degree of difficulty in creating the product
• Import substitution
• Export potential
• Price competitiveness