Accelerating innovation with prize rewards: History and typology of technology prizes and a new contest design for innovation in African agriculture

This paper describes how governments and philanthropic donors could drive innovation through a new kind of technology contest. We begin by reviewing the history of technology prizes, which operate alongside private intellectual property rights and public R&D to accelerate and guide productivity grow...

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Main Authors: Masters, William A., Delbecq, Benoit
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2008
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161327

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