Centre for Challenge Prizes

Vicki Purewal

Welcome to the Centre for Challenge prizes blog. Here you will find updates on the centre as well as comment on the general challenge prizes landscape.

Public Sector Prizes across the pond

Papers are now online from the US Public Sector Prizes event organised by the Case Foundation, the Joyce Foundation and the White House Office of Science and Technology policy  earlier this year.

26.10.2012

Inspiration and lessons from Longitude

This week I read some very thoughtful comments on prizes in a blog post on The Guardian website by Rebekah Higgitt of the National Maritime Museum. 

11.10.2012

EU Social Innovation Competition – the launch

Last week we were at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon for the launch of the EU Social Innovation Prize Competition in memory of Diogo Vasconcelos. Diogo was described as a person of outstanding energy and charisma. He never stopped thinking ahead, developing and connecting ideas and engaging with new people.

10.10.2012

Using challenge prizes to scale ideas

We recently published two blogs summarising discussions from our Centre for Challenge Prizes launch. These covered two of the questions we posed for discussion at the launch:

29.06.2012

Designing great challenge prizes

This is the second in a series of blogs summarising discussions about the role and design of challenge prizes at our Centre for Challenge Prizes launch (the first blog can be read here). We were lucky enough to bring together some brilliant individuals and organisations from a range of sectors, which generated some useful and interesting discussion, so we wanted to share some of the key points.

28.05.2012

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