The Prize Economy




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Summary: There’s a prize for that. Photo: Douglas Tengdin Increasingly, organizations are using prizes to encourage innovation. Know of a way to improve smartphone voice recognition? There’s a $10,000 price for that. Design a delivery drone? $50,000. Got a solution for how to repurpose carbon emissions to reduce the potential for global warming? That’s worth over $50 million. If you can think of a persistent, society-wide problem, there’s probably a prize associated with it. McKinsey & Co. estimates […]