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Fast Company
January 2006
Michael A. Prospero |
Fuel for Thought Philanthropist Peter Diamandis' $10 million X Prize proved that money can drive big ideas. Now he's looking for more of them in other fields, from nanotech to education.   |
National Defense
January 2015
Stew Magnuson |
More Government Agencies Using Challenge Prizes to Tackle Tough Technology Problems The Obama administration, with bipartisan support from Congress, has accelerated prize offerings, setting up the website Challenge.gov as a one-stop clearinghouse for all the prizes being offered by the federal government. |
Scientific American
February 6, 2006
Patrick DiJusto |
Winner Takes All New technology prizes are designed to spur innovation and challenge entrepreneurs to do something that outstrips the state-of-the-art in return for a sizable payoff. But is basic research being prized out of the market? |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
A Prize Beyond the Box? Prize money generates plenty of good publicity, but victory won't necessarily translate into good business. All are worthwhile quests, but what is the average investor to make of all of these contests? |
Entrepreneur
September 2006
Steve Cooper |
Eye on the Prize Are you trying to develop the next big thing? Enlist help from bright minds outside your company by throwing in a prize. |
BusinessWeek
September 13, 2004
Otis Port |
Gentlemen, Start Your Rockets The race for space is heating up as private outfits head for the launchpad. The business community is now starting to look hard at suborbital tourism to make sure they don't miss an opportunity. |
Wired
September 13, 2007
Spencer Reiss |
Google Offers $20 Million X Prize to Put Robot on Moon Google will award $20 million to the first private team to put a robot on the moon. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2008
Steve LeVine |
Can X Prizes Spur Innovation? Contests such as Peter Diamandis' X Prizes offer big purses for breakthrough ideas. But can prize money do more to stimulate innovation than existing incentives? |
Fast Company
May 2008
Anya Kamenetz |
The Power of the Prize Lo and behold, contests actually work to spur innovation. So should we use them for everything? |
Wired
June 2006
Adam Rogers |
The Challenger When Peter Diamandis gave the $10 million Ansari X Prize to the SpaceShipOne crew in 2004, he did more than build excitement about private space travel. |
Chemistry World
November 26, 2012
Andrew Turley |
Solvay launches 300,000 euro chemistry prize The prize will 'reward a major scientific discovery that could shape tomorrow's chemistry and help human progress'. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2005
Willie D. Jones |
Hard Drive In the past year, the robotics community has learned a great deal about how to make cars drive themselves. Recently, computer algorithms showed that cars might just be ready to take the wheel without human chaperones. |
BusinessWeek
August 6, 2007
Christopher Palmeri |
Space: The Private Frontier "Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots is Boldly Privatizing Space" is a worthwhile overview of the budding business of space travel. |
Entrepreneur
November 2009
Joe Robinson |
Is it Really Innovation? Peter Diamandis talks about what innovation really is while Tim O'Reilly calls the I-word era "dead on arrival." |
Inc.
January 2005
David H. Freedman |
Entrepreneur of the Year In the entrepreneurial achievement of 2004, Burt Rutan became the first private businessman to launch human beings into space. His ultimate goal: to make space flight routine -- and turn a big profit. |
Chemistry World
October 7, 2015 |
Live blog: Unravelling DNA repair mechanisms takes chemistry Nobel Our live blog explains the vital statistics of the Nobel chemistry prize and the countdown to the award announcement. |
Chemistry World
June 21, 2013
Laura Howes |
Chemistry laureate Jerome Karle dies Jerome Karle, joint winner of the 1985 Nobel prize in chemistry with Herbert Hauptman for their work on crystal structure determination, has died aged 94. |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
Otis Port |
Space Travel: Bringing Costs Down To Earth NASA should give startups room to maneuver |
Wired
December 20, 2007
Mathew Honan |
The X Prize Ecosystem Giving cash Prizes for solutions to thorny problems turns out to be a great way to tap the talents of geeks everywhere. |
Food Processing
December 2012 |
Evergreen Packaging Announces Winners Of Project Carton Design Competition More than 24 packaging design students participated in the competition as part of the New York-based college's fall curriculum. The winners were announced during 2012 Pack Expo. |
Chemistry World
November 1, 2013
Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Nobel double whammy for chemistry The chemistry prize was awarded to three US chemists for 'the development of multi-scale models for complex chemical systems'. The peace prize went to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. |
Chemistry World
March 2011 |
My hero: The greatest influences of chemistry When we devised this series to run through the International Year of Chemistry, there was some concern that everyone would choose the same hero. How wrong we were. |
Smithsonian
June 2007
Amy Crawford |
Capturing the Moment The winner of the 4th Annual Photo Contest shows off her work in this exclusive photo gallery. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2006
Jeff Wise |
Crash Test The Vertical Dragster, built by Armadillo Aerospace for the X Prize Cup, will lift off with 3000 pounds of thrust. In the pursuit of private spaceflight, a group of texas rocket enthusiasts aren't afraid to blow up a few engines. |
The Motley Fool
June 3, 2005
Steven Mallas |
Cola Star Wars: Episode I Cadbury Schweppes wants to send one lucky winner to space. How will Coke and Pepsi respond? Let's look at the stocks. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2007
Courtney E. Howard |
Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge Opens, NASA Sponsors $2 Million Prize X Prize has opened registration and outlined the rules for the $2 million Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, which calls for teams to design and develop a vehicle to simulate trips between the moon's surface and lunar orbit. |
Reason
June 2003 |
Letters Gun History Disarmed... Creation Myths... Liking the Long, Strange Trip |
Outside
April 2007 |
To the Victor Peter Diamandis will pay you to save the planet. |
Popular Mechanics
January 23, 2008
Matt Sullivan |
Virgin Galactic and Burt Rutan Unveil SpaceShipTwo: First Look Burt Rutan's commercial spacecraft is 60 percent complete and test flights could occur this year. |
AFP eWire
June 9, 2008 |
Prize Rewards Charities that Collaborate Nominations are being accepted now for The Collaboration Prize, a $250,000 award being offered by the Lodestar Foundation for U.S. charities. |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2006
Rich Smith |
Intel to Dell: You Guys Stink Intel sponsors a $1 million contest to design a decent-looking computer. Basically, it is looking for an EBA iMac. |
Chemistry World
October 8, 2014 |
Live blog: Single molecule spectroscopy wins chemistry Nobel prize The bloggers offer their comments on the developing Nobel Prize story and winners for 2014. |
Chemistry World
October 5, 2015 |
Behind closed doors: How to win the Nobel prize Few know the process by which the winner or winners are chosen. We go behind closed doors to find out how the Nobel committee make their selection. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2011
Christopher I. Franklin |
Winner's Circle Without a winner's circle in leadership, an advisory practice will lag behind its peers. Building a winner's circle is just as important to your success as market resurgence. |
Inc.
November 1, 2009
Shivani Vora |
Making It Work: Student Interns Tips for attracting young talent and making the most of your internship program. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Erik Sofge |
Rocket Racing League Struggles to Get Off the Ground A promising new aerial sport stalled at the X Prize Cup. Instead of a demo race, the league unveiled a nonworking rocket-plane mockup and sent a single jet around an aerial course. |
Wired
July 2003
Carl Hoffman |
The Right Stuff Forget cyberspace. Geeks are about to conquer outer space. And the $10 million X Prize is just the beginning. |
Wired
December 20, 2007
Eric Hagerman |
1 Gallon of Gas, 100 Miles -- $10 Million: The Race to Build the Supergreen Car The Automotive X Prize will award at least $10 million to the team that builds a 100-mpg machine and then wins a race against other green vehicles. |
Chemistry World
November 23, 2012
Ian Le Guillou |
Rivalry in science Morton Meyers examines the issue of assigning credit for scientific advances in his new book, Prize Fight. |
