Prize-Related Reports

• 1999 April 30 - "Concerning Federally Funded Inducement Prizes in Engineering and Science", Report by the National Academy of Engineering

•  NAE 1999.04.30.pdf

• "The Golden Age of Spaceflight", Report by Gregg Maryniak of the X PRIZE Foundation

•  Maryniak, Golden Age of Spaceflight.pdf

• 2000 June 05 - "The Optimal Allocation of Prizes in Contests", by Benny Moldovanu and Aner Sela

•  Moldovanu & Sela 2000.06.05.pdf

• 200x August 13 - "Prizes for Innovation in African Agriculture: A Framework Document", by William A. Masters

•  Masters 200x.08.13.pdf

• 2002 - "Do We Need Alternative Incentives for Basic Reserach? Patents vs. Prizes", by Lee Davis

•  DAVIS 2002.pdf

• 2002 November - "Contest Architecture", by Benny Moldovanu and Aner Sela

•  Moldovanu & Sela 2002.11.01.pdf

• 2003 June 24 - "Private Stages to Orbit", by Adrian Tymes, Michael Wallis, and Randall Clague

•  Tymes, Wallis & Clague 2003.xx.xx.pdf

• 2003 November 07 - NASA Space Architect Prize Study, Performed by X PRIZE Foundation

•  2003.11.07 Public Space Architect Study.pdf

• 2004 May 07 - "Industrial Dynamics, Innovation and Development", Report by Lee Davis and Jerome Davis

•  Davis & Davis 2004.05.07.pdf

• 2004 December - "The Application and Administration of Inducement Prizes in Technology" by Alex Schroeder

•  Schroeder, 2004.12.pdf

• 2007 January - "Innovation Inducement Prizes at the National Science Foundation", Report by the National Research Council

•  NRC report on NSF prizes 2007.01.pdf

• 2007 March 01 - Prominent Innovation Prizes and Reward Programs

•  2007.03.01 Prominent Innovation Prizes.pdf

• 2009 March 04 -  "And the Winner is...Capturing the Promise of Philanthropic Prizes", by the McKinsey & Company's Social Sector Office

• 2009.03.04 And_the_winner_is.pdf 

• 2009 June 29 - Federally Funded Innovation Inducement Prizes by Deborah D. Stine, Specialist in Science and Technology Policy, Congressional Research Service, 

• 2009.06.29 Federally Funded Innovation Inducement Prizes.pdf

• 2010 March 8 - Executive Memo on Challenges and Prizes

• 2010.03.08 Executive Memo on Challenges and Prizes.pdf  

• 2011 February 14 -Managing Innovation Prizes in Government, by Luciano Kay, Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy 

• 2011.02.14 Luciano Kay Prize Report.pdf 

• 2013 July - "Why Contests Improve Philanthropy" by Mayur Patel, Knight Foundation

• 2013-07-24 KF-Contests-Report-lores.pdf  

• 2014 Feb 25 - The Power of Prizes: Incentivizing Radical Innovation, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation

• 2014 June 20 -  The Craft of Prize Design: Lessons from the public sector, Deloitte University Press

• 2014-06-20 TheCraftofIncentivePrizeDesign.pdf