Using Innovation Prizes to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals

Bryony Everett, Erika Wagner and Christopher Barnett
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Bryony Everett: Bryony Everett is an independent consultant who principally manages rural development projects and research on behalf of the major donors; she was lead researcher of an “Evidence Review of Environmental Innovation Prizes for Development” undertaken for the UK's Department for International Development.
Erika Wagner: Erika Wagner is Senior Director for Exploration Prize Development at the X PRIZE Foundation and an Affiliate Instructor at the X PRIZE Lab at the University of Washington, where she teaches about prize design and theory.
Christopher Barnett: Christopher Barnett is an Associate Director at ITAD, works part-time at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), and specializes in performance management, evaluations, and impact assessments, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.

Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, 2012, vol. 7, issue 1, 107-114

Keywords: innovation prizes; grant funding; Longitude Prize; Orteig Prize; Ansari X PRIZE; Grainger Prize (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H81 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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