Talk:Innovation competition

Need more examples, such as:

DARPA Autonomous Vehicle DARPA Robotics Challenge

XPrize

KDD Kaggle

prize that Charles Lindbergh won for being first to cross Atlantic in "Spirit of St Louis"

British contest for accurate clock for ship navigation

Jim.Callahan,Orlando (talk) 23:21, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Longitude Prize

Longitude Act The Longitude Act was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed in July 1714 at the end of the reign of Queen Anne. It established the Board of Longitude and offered monetary rewards (Longitude rewards) for anyone who could find a simple and practical methods for the precise determination of a ship's longitude.

John Harrison In 1730, Harrison designed a marine clock to compete for the Longitude Prize and traveled to London, seeking financial assistance. He presented his ideas to Edmond Halley, the Astronomer Royal, who in turn referred him to George Graham, the country's foremost clockmaker. Graham must have been impressed by Harrison's ideas, for he loaned him money to build a model of his "Sea clock". Jim.Callahan,Orlando (talk) 22:32, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

GOOGLE LUNAR XPRIZE
Created in 2007, "The mission of the Google Lunar XPRIZE is to incentivize space entrepreneurs to create a new era of affordable access to the Moon and beyond."

"The competition’s $30 million prize purse will be awarded to teams who are able to land a privately funded rover on the moon, travel 500 meters, and transmit back high definition video and images. The first team that successfully completes this mission will be awarded the $20 million dollar Grand Prize. The second team to successfully complete the mission will be awarded $5 million dollars. To win either of these prizes, teams must prove that 90% of their mission costs were funded by private sources. Teams have until the end of 2016 to announce a verified launch contract to remain in the competition and complete their mission by the end of 2017." http://lunar.xprize.org/about/overview Jim.Callahan,Orlando (talk) 22:43, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

NASA Tournament Lab (presentation)
Using Contests to Stimulate Innovation Karim R. Lakhani | Harvard | NASA-Tournament Lab (formerly TopCoder)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/lakhani_pcast.pdf Jim.Callahan,Orlando (talk) 00:39, 28 December 2015 (UTC)