Economix: You Want Innovation? Offer a Prize
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Back in the 1700s, prizes were a fairly common way to reward innovation. But todayâs economy doesnât have nearly enough of them.
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Blog: If the hotel industry is lagging behind, is that a solid indication of where we are in terms of innovation?
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Following up on yesterday's piece about Demo-like conferences. Eric Norlin proposes that the economics are still out of whack. The people providing the value, the people attending the show, should get in for free. The demoers should pay. He has a point. In my HyperCamp proposal, that is how it works. The premise is that in 2007 everyone who attends is as much press as anyone else (everyone's a blogger) so what's the justification for some people getting in as press (i.e. free of charge) and others paying $2500.
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Do you want better returns? Philip Durell shows you how to get them.
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Studying the history of disruptive innovation can help us find tomorrow's winners.
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One great way to determine whether your digital product is destined for greatness is how many people want to steal it. The same goes for open source.
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Is there something new that open source development methods and values can bring to the economy? How about something old?  I think the answer may come from the developing world, where pre-industrial methods and values persist and offer some helpful models and lessons for a networked world that's less post-industrial than industrial in a new and less impersonal way. This began to become apparent to me a few years ago I had a Socratic exchange with a Nigerian pastor named Sayo, whom I was lucky to find sitting next to me on a long airplane trip.
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Entrepreneurs discover success requires a little reinvention.
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While Nobel prizes are given for past performance, other types of inducement prizes are intended to spur innovation. Do they do the job?
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Looking back on a year of advertising innovation
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Companies love to give away prizes, but that doesn't make them winners.
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A predictions market about technology that can benefit from the wisdom of crowds.
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It doesn't take a genius to catch on to the fact that in IT, innovation is a mandate. Push the envelope of what's possible, or find yourself relegated to wayside. But, to borrow a favored David St. Hubbins Spinal Tap aphorism, there's a fine line between clever and crackpot when it comes to making good on technological breakthroughs in the enterprise.                                                      It is in that spirit that we revisit last year's level-headed look at crackpot technologies that could transform the enterprise, putting the screws to a new rack of could-be enterprise contenders. But before you write off nanotech or direct brain interfaces as the next big enterprise thing, consider this:  [ For an in-depth look at last year's crackpot tech assessments, see: 12 crackpot tech ideas that could transform the enterprise ]  Of the dozen technologies we examined last year, several made significant enterprise-minded strides since we first assessed their IT prospects. Desktop Web apps, for one, lent credence to the conjecture that fat productivity suites might just have a shorter future than previously thought; solid-state drives popped up everywhere, from ultramobile laptops to the datacenter; and Sun's datacenter-in-a-box proved compelling enough for Google to move first to patent it. Even quantum cryptography received a vote of confidence, with Switzerland tapping the technology to protect parliamentary election transmissions.   Sure, some of this year's out-there technologies may prove fruit for future high-profile tech flops lists, but without forward-thinking, there would be no worthwhile enterprise advancement. So raise your eyebrows or your suspicions as you deem fit, and join us in assessing the potential each of the following technologies has to earn IT's respect or derision.  ? Nanotechnology ? Optical computing ? Pervasive computing ? Wireless power ? The $100 laptop ? Direct brain interfaces ? Enterprise supercomputing ? Virtual worlds
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A series of X-Prizes for breakthroughs in science or technology that solve the world's greatest challenges are planned.
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Some economists say the government can reduce pharmaceutical prices by changing how the nation pays for innovation.
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The X Prize Foundation and the World Technology Network announced today the formation of a joint venture to launch a series of technology incentive prizes to help spur innovation
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By MATTI HUUHTANEN HELSINKI, Finland - The winner of a $1.2 million prize for his inventions in light and laser technology said Friday he will give away some of his money to promote research at universities and organizations that help developing countries.