SELECTED INNOVATION PRIZES AND REWARD PROGRAMS KEI Research Note 2008:1 Revised 20 March 2008 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)........................................................12 Sainte-Lucie Prize for the Best Processed Sugar, the Best Rum, and the Best Rheims Airshow Prizes (1909)......................................................................12 Cotton Mill (1780s).........................................................................................7 Milan Committee Prize (1910)......................................................................12 Napoleon's Food Preservation Prize (1795)....................................................7 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)..................................................................8 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)...........................................................14 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.........................................................................................................10 Wisconsin Prize for Mechanical Substitute for Horses and Other Animals General Aviation Technology Challenge (2008).....................................14 (1875) ...........................................................................................................10 Moon Regolith Oxygen Extraction (MoonROx) Challenge (expires Chicago Times-Herald Prize for Motors (1895)...........................................10 2009) ......................................................................................................14 Automotive X-Prize (2007)...........................................................................10 Elevator: 2010 (2005-2010).....................................................................14 New Options Petroleum Energy Conservation Act (2007)...........................10 Astronaut Glove Challenge (2007-2008)................................................15 Animal Control..................................................................................................10 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge (2006-2008)....................15 Destruction of the Bothrops Lanceolatus (1859)..........................................10 Space and Aeronautics Prize Act (2004, 2005, 2007)...................................15 The Phylloxera Prizes (1869) .......................................................................10 Google Lunar X-Prize (2007).......................................................................15 Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Prize (1903) ................................................11 Climate, Environment, Energy and Power.........................................................16 Cane Toad Trap Competition (2004).............................................................11 Bernoulli's Steam-Power Prize (1753) .........................................................16 Aviation and Outer Space...................................................................................11 Rumsey Premiums for Steam Engine Invention (1784)................................16 Deutsch Prize (1900).....................................................................................11 SELECTED INNOVATION PRIZES AND REWARD PROGRAMS The Volta Prize for Electricity (1801)...........................................................16 The Ford Foundation Innovations Award Programs (1986) .........................23 Prize Question for Propelling Vessels without a Paddle Wheel (1825)........17 Bank of Innovation Projects Convocatorias (Argentina, 2004) ...................24 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.......................................................................................................25 Premium for the Prevention of Smoke (1855)..............................................18 French Royal Academy Prize Questions (1721)...........................................25 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)..................................26 Medical...............................................................................................................26 Motor suitable for housework.................................................................18 Smallpox Vaccination Reward (1802)...........................................................26 Incandescent electric lamp of 1/10th candle power................................18 French Academy of Sciences Montyon Prizes (1820)..................................26 Galileo Ferraris Prize (1897) ........................................................................18 Duke of Oldenburg Prize for the Best Treatise on Yellow Fever (1822)......26 Automobile Clubs Prize for a Cheap Alternative to Gasoline (1913)...........19 Prize for Best Memoir Regarding the Preservative Virtue of Vaccine (1842) U.S. Patent Compensation Board (1946)......................................................19 .......................................................................................................................27 Super-Efficient Refrigerator Program (1992)...............................................19 Premium for a Substitute for Quinine (1849)................................................27 China Energy-Efficient Refrigerators Project (2000)...................................19 The Jecker Prize (1851).................................................................................27 Grainger Challenges (2005)..........................................................................20 The Breant Prize for Asiatic Cholera (1854).................................................27 MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize (2007).......................................20 The Armand Hammer Cancer Prize (1981)...................................................27