SELECTED INNOVATION PRIZES AND REWARD PROGRAMS KEI Research Note 2008:1 Table of Contents Introduction.........................................................................................................4 Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize (1903)...............................................................11 Agriculture and Food..........................................................................................6 Scientific American Prize (1908).................................................................11 Académie de Besançon Prize for Substitute Foods (1771)............................6 English Channel Crossing Prize (1909).......................................................11 Sainte-Lucie Prize for the Best Processed Sugar, the Best Rum, and the Rheims Airshow Prizes (1909)....................................................................11 Best Cotton Mill (1780s)................................................................................6 Milan Committee Prize (1910)....................................................................12 Napoleon's Food Preservation Prize (1795)...................................................6 Hearst Prize (1910)......................................................................................12 Elkington Reward for Drainage Technology (1795)....................................7 Daily Mail Trans-Atlantic Prize (1913).......................................................12 Dutch Prize for Sugar from Native Plants.....................................................7 Orteig Prize (1919).......................................................................................12 Napoleon Sugar Beet Prize (1810).................................................................7 England-to-Australia Air Race Prize (1919)................................................12 Art of Piercing or Boring Artesian Wells (1818) ..........................................8 NASA Space Act Awards (1958)................................................................12 Highland and Agricultural Society of Edinburgh Reaper Prize (1826).........8 Kremer Prizes for a Human-Powered Flying Machine (1959)....................12 Apple and Pear Prize (1826)..........................................................................8 Sikorsky Prize (1980) ..................................................................................13 Substitute for Guano (1852)...........................................................................8 Ansari X-Prize (1995)..................................................................................13 Napoleon III Margarine Prize (1869).............................................................8 Budweiser Cup (1997).................................................................................13 French Prize Competition in Irrigation Practice (1874)................................9 Cheap Access to Space Prize (1997)............................................................13 Italian Prize Competition in Irrigation Practice (1879) ................................9 America's Space Prize (2004)......................................................................13 The Orloff-Davidoff Prize (1894) .................................................................9 NASA Centennial Challenges (2004)..........................................................13 Burkina Faso Innovation Prizes (1994) ........................................................9 Regolith Excavation Challenge (2007-2008)........................................14 Self-Powered Farms (2007)...........................................................................9 Personal Air Vehicle Challenge (2007-2008).......................................14 Automotive.........................................................................................................9 General Aviation Technology Challenge (2008)...................................14 Wisconsin Prize for Mechanical Substitute for Horses and Other Animals Moon Regolith Oxygen Extraction (MoonROx) Challenge (expires (1875) ............................................................................................................9 2009) .....................................................................................................14 Chicago Times-Herald Prize for Motors (1895)..........................................10 Elevator: 2010 (2005-2010)..................................................................14 Automotive X-Prize (2007).........................................................................10 Astronaut Glove Challenge (2007-2008)..............................................15 New Options Petroleum Energy Conservation Act (2007)..........................10 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge (2006-2008)..................15 Animal Control.................................................................................................10 Space and Aeronautics Prize Act (2004, 2005, 2007).................................15 Destruction of the Bothrops Lanceolatus (1859).........................................10 Google Lunar X-Prize (2007)......................................................................15 The Phylloxera Prizes (1869) ......................................................................10 Climate, Environment, Energy and Power.......................................................16 Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Prize (1903) ..............................................11 Bernoulli's Steam-Power Prize (1753) ........................................................16 Cane Toad Trap Competition (2004)...........................................................11 Rumsey Premiums for Steam Engine Invention (1784)..............................16 Aviation and Outer Space.................................................................................11 The Volta Prize for Electricity (1801).........................................................16 Deutsch Prize (1900)....................................................................................11 Prize Question for Propelling Vessels without a Paddle Wheel (1825)......17 SELECTED INNOVATION PRIZES AND REWARD PROGRAMS Turbine Prize (1826)....................................................................................17 Texas Social Innovation Competition (2006) .............................................24 Liverpool & Manchester Railway Locomotive Prize (1829).......................17 Ibrahim African Leadership Prize (2006) ...................................................24 The Screw Propeller Reward (1855)............................................................17 Mathematics......................................................................................................24 Premium for the Prevention of Smoke (1855).............................................18 French Royal Academy Prize Questions (1721)..........................................24 French Society for the Encouragement of Industry Prizes (1896)...............18 Wolfskehl Prize for Fermat's Last Theorem (1908).....................................25 Best motor to run on commercial oil.....................................................18 The Beal Conjecture and Prize (1997).........................................................25 Efficient steam engine...........................................................................18 Millennium Grand Challenge in Mathematics (2000).................................25 Motor suitable for housework...............................................................18 Medical.............................................................................................................26 Incandescent electric lamp of 1/10th candle power..............................18 Smallpox Vaccination Reward (1802).........................................................26 Galileo Ferraris Prize (1897) .......................................................................18 French Academy of Sciences Montyon Prizes (1820).................................26 Automobile Clubs Prize for a Cheap Alternative to Gasoline (1913).........18 Duke of Oldenburg Prize for the Best Treatise on Yellow Fever (1822)....26 U.S. Patent Compensation Board (1946).....................................................19 Prize for Best Memoir Regarding the Preservative Virtue of Vaccine (1842) Super-Efficient Refrigerator Program (1992)..............................................19 ......................................................................................................................26 China Energy-Efficient Refrigerators Project (2000)..................................19 Premium for a Substitute for Quinine (1849)..............................................27 Grainger Challenges (2005).........................................................................19 The Jecker Prize (1851)...............................................................................27 MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize (2007)......................................20 The Breant Prize for Asiatic Cholera (1854)...............................................27 Prizes for Advanced Technology Achievements (2007).............................20 The Armand Hammer Cancer Prize (1981).................................................27 Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prizes (2007)....................................................20 Rockefeller Prize (1994)..............................................................................27 H-Prize (2007)..............................................................................................20