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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International Food Policy Research Institute
2008
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| author | Masters, William A. Delbecq, Benoit |
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| description | 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 growth towards otherwise-neglected social goals. Proportional prize rewards" would modify the traditional winner-take-all approach, by dividing available funds among multiple winners in proportion to measured achievement. This approach would provide a royalty-like payment for incremental success. The paper provides concludes with a specific example for how such prizes could be implemented to reward and help scale up successful innovations in African agriculture, through payments to innovators in proportion to the value created by their technologies after adoption. " |
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| spelling | CGSpace1613272025-11-06T07:18:29Z Accelerating innovation with prize rewards: History and typology of technology prizes and a new contest design for innovation in African agriculture Masters, William A. Delbecq, Benoit productivity technology adoption intellectual property rights agricultural research innovation 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 growth towards otherwise-neglected social goals. Proportional prize rewards" would modify the traditional winner-take-all approach, by dividing available funds among multiple winners in proportion to measured achievement. This approach would provide a royalty-like payment for incremental success. The paper provides concludes with a specific example for how such prizes could be implemented to reward and help scale up successful innovations in African agriculture, through payments to innovators in proportion to the value created by their technologies after adoption. " 2008 2024-11-21T09:54:56Z 2024-11-21T09:54:56Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161327 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Masters, William A.; Delbecq, Benoit. 2008. Accelerating innovation with prize rewards. IFPRI Discussion Paper 835. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161327 |
| spellingShingle | productivity technology adoption intellectual property rights agricultural research innovation Masters, William A. Delbecq, Benoit Accelerating innovation with prize rewards: History and typology of technology prizes and a new contest design for innovation in African agriculture |
| title | Accelerating innovation with prize rewards: History and typology of technology prizes and a new contest design for innovation in African agriculture |
| title_full | Accelerating innovation with prize rewards: History and typology of technology prizes and a new contest design for innovation in African agriculture |
| title_fullStr | Accelerating innovation with prize rewards: History and typology of technology prizes and a new contest design for innovation in African agriculture |
| title_full_unstemmed | Accelerating innovation with prize rewards: History and typology of technology prizes and a new contest design for innovation in African agriculture |
| title_short | Accelerating innovation with prize rewards: History and typology of technology prizes and a new contest design for innovation in African agriculture |
| title_sort | accelerating innovation with prize rewards history and typology of technology prizes and a new contest design for innovation in african agriculture |
| topic | productivity technology adoption intellectual property rights agricultural research innovation |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161327 |
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