Project Evaluation Methodology and Software Tool for Innovation Contests

Abstract

In this research, job results are oriented to help organizational entities that need to select easily from a group, those projects developed with the highest quality. In addition, this system provides support and in project competitions authors establishes impartiality and the possible greater numerical accuracy. This paper proposes a methodology to evaluate innovation, creativity, and quality in a project competition, to determine the best ones. Authors implement them through a software application including a qualimetric model. This assists evaluators in determining, with the greatest numerical accuracy possible, the outcome of the competition.Finally, authors give some practical guidelines to concrete a correct instrumentation of the evaluation procedures, such as ranking, presentation and documentation.