Innovation Inducement Prizes at the National Science Foundation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Innovation Inducement Prizes at the National Science Foundation write by National Research Council. This book was released on 2007-04-21. Innovation Inducement Prizes at the National Science Foundation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following a congressional directive in its FY 2006 Appropriations Act, the National Science Foundation asked the STEP Board to "propose a plan for administering prizes to individuals or teams that achieve novel solutions to specified social or research needs or capitalize on recognized research opportunities." A committee under the STEP Board concluded that an ambitious program of innovation inducement prize contests would be a sound investment in strengthening the infrastructure for U.S. innovation and that NSF, although inexperienced, is well suited to designing an experimental program that could add substantially to understanding regarding the appropriate goals of such contests, the motivations of participants and sponsors, and the rules and conditions that contribute to successful contests. The committee recommends that NSF start off with a series of small-scale prizes ($200K - $2M) in diverse areas while beginning to plan for much more ambitious contests ($3M-$30M) that would address significant economic or social challenges and be conducted over several years. The report addresses many of the generic issues that arise in administering innovation prize contests (types of contests, eligibility to participate, disposition of intellectual property rights, and decisions regarding awards) and explores 7 research and technology fields that might lend themselves to prize contests.
Innovation Inducement Prizes
Innovation Inducement Prizes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Innovation Inducement Prizes write by . This book was released on 2007. Innovation Inducement Prizes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Federally Funded Innovation Inducement Prizes
Federally Funded Innovation Inducement Prizes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Federally Funded Innovation Inducement Prizes write by Deborah D. Stine. This book was released on 2009-12. Federally Funded Innovation Inducement Prizes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contents: (1) What are the Different Kinds of Prizes?; (2) What is the Status of Federally-Funded Innovation Inducement Prizes?: DoD Wearable Power Prize; DARPA Grand Challenges; DoE Grand Challenges; Progressive Auto. X PRIZE; Amer. Le Mans Series Green Challenge Race; NASA Centennial Challenges: Astronaut Glove Challenge; General Aviation Technology; Lunar Regolith Excavation Challenge; Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge; Power Beaming and Tether; Lunar Oxygen Production or MoonROx; NASA Assessment of Program; Future Competitions; Biomed. Advanced R&D Authority Project BioShield; (3) What Policy Options Might Members of Congress Consider?: Create New Prizes; Modify Current Prize Programs.
Strategic Planning for the Florida Citrus Industry
Strategic Planning for the Florida Citrus Industry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strategic Planning for the Florida Citrus Industry write by National Research Council. This book was released on 2010-04-15. Strategic Planning for the Florida Citrus Industry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Citrus greening, a disease that reduces yield, compromises the flavor, color, and size of citrus fruit and eventually kills the citrus tree, is now present in all 34 Floridian citrus-producing counties. Caused by an insect-spread bacterial infection, the disease reduced citrus production in 2008 by several percent and continues to spread, threatening the existence of Florida's $9.3 billion citrus industry. A successful citrus greening response will focus on earlier detection of diseased trees, so that these sources of new infections can be removed more quickly, and on new methods to control the insects that carry the bacteria. In the longerterm, technologies such as genomics could be used to develop new citrus strains that are resistant to both the bacteria and the insect.
Inventing Ideas
Inventing Ideas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing Ideas write by B. Zorina Khan. This book was released on 2020. Inventing Ideas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This books shows how and why the ideas of creative individuals promote progress. The insights are based on original archival research regarding over one hundred thousand inventors, patented inventions, and innovation prizes in Europe and the United States during industrialization. This systematic empirical analysis across time and place and institutions provides an extensive microfoundation for understanding technological change and long-run macroeconomic growth. British and French policies favoured "administered innovation systems," in which elites, administrators or panels made key economic decisions about inducement prizes, rewards and the allocation of resources. European institutions generated returns that were misaligned with economic value and productivity, and perpetuated socioeconomic inequality. Europe fell behind when the negative consequences of such top-down administered systems accumulated and reduced comparative advantage. The modern knowledge economy emerged when, for the first time in world history, an intellectual property clause was included in a national Constitution, in the United States. This strong endorsement for open-access property rights and unfettered markets in ideas reflected a revolution in thinking about the sources of creativity and technical progress. U.S. global industrial ascendancy was a direct outcome of its decentralized market-oriented institutions, which fostered diversity in ideas and innovations, the diffusion of information and disruptive technologies, and sustained endogenous growth"--
