Saturday, August 11, 2007

More Prize Competitions in Several Fields

Also from the X PRIZE news ticker, Business Week has an article on several innovation prizes:

- The Picnic Green Challenge to generate ideas for products and services to help reduce greenhouse emissions with a 500,000 euro prize

- The Buckminster Fuller Challenge, an annual $100,000 competition to design solutions to our biggest problems

- The Knight Foundation News Challenge, a contest with $5 million in prizes for ideas to "use digital communities to enhance physical communities".