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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?   |
Fast Company
May 2008 |
Vision Quest: Contests Throughout History Technology innovation inspired by competitions past and future. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today
September 9, 2010 |
Challenge.gov Prize Platform Invites Citizens to Solve Nation's Challenges Challenge.gov is an online site where entrepreneurs, innovators, and citizen solvers can compete for prestige and prizes by providing novel solutions to tough national problems, large and small. |
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
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
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. |
Information Today
April 25, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
InnoCentive Links Problems and Problem-Solvers In a day and age when `thinking outside the box' is universally touted as the fastest path to scientific and technological innovation, incentive prize contests have come to be seen as one of the most creative ways to generate groundbreaking ideas. |
Chemistry World
June 11, 2012
Laura Howes |
Nobel Prize Amount Cut Recently, returns on the capital of the foundation have fallen short of the amount needed to support the prizes. |
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? |
Chemistry World
November 2009
Bibiana Campos-Seijo |
Editorial: Ringing in the Nobels This year the chemistry prize seems to have once again caused a bit of a commotion. The criticism? Well, some in the scientific community have suggested that the research had too strong a biological focus. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 22, 2011
Michael Blanding |
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity As global competition intensifies, it's more important than ever that companies figure out how to innovate if they are going to maintain their edge, or maintain their existence at all. |
IDB America
May 2003
Charo Quesada |
I can do it better! Awards that recognize innovation offer a popular and effective way to foster creative solutions to public sector problems. |
National Defense
September 2015
Jon Harper |
Air Force Launches Competition for Revolutionary Turbine Engine The Air Force is hoping that a prize contest will yield a revolutionary new engine that doubles the fuel efficiency of current systems. |
Reason
November 2004
Ronald Bailey |
Build a Better Mouse If scientists can reliably lengthen the lives of mice, the Methuselah Mouse Prize organizers believe, they will be well on their way to finding out how to do the same thing for people. |
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." |
AFP eWire
February 4, 2008 |
Nominations Open for Purpose Prize, Honoring Older Americans Involved in Charitable Work Americans age 60 and over who address critical social problems with their creativity, talent and innovation may be nominated for this prize. |
National Defense
February 2015
Stew Magnuson |
DARPA Contest Seeking Humanoid Rescue Robot The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's latest robotic challenge calls for a human-shaped robot to carry out a series of search-and-rescue tasks. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2007
Jill Jusko |
Develop Wearable Power System And Win $1 Million The U.S. Department of Defense is looking for a few good inventors to help lessen the load soldiers carry as they head out on a mission. The right solution is worth $1 million. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 3, 2014
Carmen Nobel |
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize What makes the Nobel Prize so coveted? Stephen Greyser and Mats Urde discuss the first field-based study exploring the prize from a brand and reputation perspective. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Chemistry World
November 2, 2015
Philip Robinson |
A Nobel purpose The Nobel categories are fields that support Nobel's humanitarian goals, and looking at this year's awards, there is a notable humanitarian, even humanist, flavor. |
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. |
Geotimes
July 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Jetting Through Space President Bush announced on Jan. 4, 2004, his vision to return humans to the moon, Mars and beyond. Without the Cold War era impetus, however, NASA is searching for new ways to motivate development of innovative new vehicles to fly humans to the moon. |
Salon.com
November 16, 2000
Laura Miller |
And the winner is ... The drama and the dish behind the literary prizes that shape what America reads... |
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. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
May 2008
David Worrell |
Prize Surprise Entrepreneurs are competing for the gold - and getting much more in the process. |
IDB America
January 2004
Roger Hamilton |
Heaven and earth Two surrealistic images of heaven and earth took the top prizes in the First Inter-American Competition and Exhibition of Digital Photography, awarded in January 2004. |
Information Today
August 4, 2011 |
Digital Science Funding Program to Spur Innovation Digital Science, a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd., unveiled its Catalyst Prize, an initiative to support innovators who wish to develop new software tools or technologies for scientific research. |
The Motley Fool
September 14, 2007
Tim Beyers |
To the Moon, Google! Google puts up a $30 million cash prize to whoever can explore 500 meters of the lunar surface and transmit high-definition video back to Earth before December 31, 2012. |
Outside
April 2007 |
To the Victor Peter Diamandis will pay you to save the planet. |
AFP eWire
March 26, 2013
David Adress |
Using Chinese Auction Websites As Your Next Special Event A great example of a website that can help raise funds is a Chinese auction website. A Chinese auction is a combination of raffle and auction commonly used by a fundraiser. |
U.S. CPSC
March 15, 2011 |
8th Grader from Hawaii Wins Grand Prize in CPSC's Carbon Monoxide Poster Contest The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is announcing the winners of its first-ever poster contest for middle school students on carbon monoxide (CO) safety. |
Inc.
October 1, 2002
Donna Fenn |
Keep Me a Prize Sure, you can build a company and hope that it outlives you, but why stop there? A prize program offers immortality. |
National Defense
December 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Simulator to Help Developers Push Robotics Technology Forward A simulator intended to give robot makers a hand during a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contest is expected to remain an integral part of how developers design the machines in the future. |
Entrepreneur
November 2004
Nichole L. Torres |
Planning for Gold At business plan competitions across the country, judges sift through talented teams of presenters to find out who deserves the precious prizes--cash, services and VC exposure. Could your startup be the next to strike it rich? |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
John Voelcker |
Eyes on the Prize Here, the author sits in on energy equivalence debates -- with millions of dollars for a "100 mpg car" riding on the results. The impetus for the session -- and the Auto X Prize itself -- is the growing awareness of climate change. |
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. |
IDB America
January 2003 |
Three cheers for `Chambatel' Mexico's job placement services win award for innovation and quality in public administration |
Chemistry World
November 2011
Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: Nobels and Nobility The 2011 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Daniel Shechtman at Technion in Haifa, Israel, for the discovery of quasicrystals. |
Fast Company
Daniel Terdiman |
At The DARPA Challenge, May The Best Robot Win The DARPA Robotics Challenge is in the final round of the three-year competition to crown the human/robot team best able to respond to a man-made or natural disaster were under way. |
Fast Company
June 2004
Seth Godin |
The Best Things In Life Are Free In an excerpt from his new book, Free Prize Inside!, Seth Godin shows how anyone can champion new ideas. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2006
Tekla S. Perry |
Crowning the Clean Tech Stars New contest spurs innovative ideas of energy conservation. |
Bank Systems & Technology
December 30, 2008
Orla O'Sullivan |
Ideas Are Stock in Trade for Wells' Execs Wells Fargo's Innovation Stock Exchange is a forum in which the San Francisco-based bank's technologists put forward ideas that could benefit the business. |
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. |
