Nominations open for 40 Hottest Emerging Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy

August 24, 2017 |

Who will be #1? who will get your vote? 

In Florida, The Digest announced the official opening of nominations for the 40 Hottest Early-Stage Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Nominate companies here.

Eligibility

Any companies engaged in the advanced bioeconomy as a producer, supplier, investor or partner companies are eligible who were founded on or since January 1, 2008. Joint ventures founded on or after that date are eligible as of the date of their founding (irrespective of the age of their parent organizations).

Nominations — You Gotta Be in It, To Win It

Each company or organization that receives a nomination will be included on the ballot, along with last year’s Hot 40-ranked companies. Nominations will remain open through September 10th at 5pm ET.

Note: No company has yet made it into the Rankings as a write-in. So, nomination is virtually essential for a good result. “You have to be in it to win it.” so make sure you nominate the companies you are a fan of.

Nominate companies here.

Voting eligibility – official selectors

Voting will be open to all registered delegates of the 2017 Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference on Next-Gen Technologies (ABLC Next), including attendees, presenters, media and staff.

Voting period

Voting will begin September 11th and continue through 5pm ET, Friday, September 22nd, 2017.

The Hot Party: Announcement of Hot 40 results at ABLCNext in San Francisco on October 17th, 2017

The Hot 40 rankings will be announced at ABLC-Next in San Francisco on November 3, 2015 at 6pm PT, and we will honor the companies, their suppliers, industrial partners, investors and team at the annual Hot Party in San Francisco.

Write-in votes

All companies that registered for the  Hot 40 Rankings are included in the Official Ballot, but if there is a deserving company that did not register for the Official Ballot, selectors are welcome to cast a write-in vote for that company.

Voting criteria

Voters may judge for themselves what makes a company “hot”.

In our view, we believe that “hot” represents an ideal blend of visibility and credibility. Companies that are substantive but unknown may be credible, but they are not hot. Likewise, companies that are widely-known but hyped are visible, but not hot. Hot is not the same as “best” nor is it the same as “most popular” and the Rankings are neither intended to be a popularity contest nor a qualitative rating system.

Prohibited voting practices

Voters may not attempt to spam the ballot box through deceptive practices, nor may competing companies organize spam balloting efforts. The Digest reserves the right to reject any ballot it deems to be the product of a spamming campaign or to cancel all ballots from that voter, or remove a company from the competition and such a determination will be made in the Digest’s sole discretion, and its decision is final.

In general, any practice designed to prevent a fair ballot is prohibited, and may result in the suspension of a company from the Rankings or the cancellation of any and all ballots which the Digest, in its sole discretion, deems to be tainted.

Permitted voting practices

Companies or individuals may exhort selectors to vote for a deserving company — campaigning for a Hot 40 ranking is not prohibited so long as the voting itself is fair and ethical. Voters are permitted to vote for companies they are personally, directly or indirectly, affiliated with.

The Hot 40 for 2016-17

The 40 Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy for 2016-17 receive an automatic nomination for this year’s ballot (so long as they remain eligible based on founding date) — and the official rankings are here.

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