Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Innovation Contests

The Economist article on a whole series of prizes designed to catalyse clean, renewable and cost-effective energy @ http://www.economist.com/daily/columns/greenview/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12077182 was educational and insightful.

Useful links:
www.xprize.org
www.virginearth.com
www.freedomprize.org

Prizes lead people to compete ferociously and cunningly. They tap a primitive urge to win, and to be seen winning, even when the prize itself is trivial compared with the effort required to attain it.
- Economist

How true!

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