$10K for Index on Trends in Human Potential
Saturday, June 4th, 2011
The Economist and the global innovation marketplace Innocentive, have teamed up to offer a $10,000 prize to anyone that develops a novel metric for measuring tends in Human Potential.
More specifically, the metric or index should measure how well a region or a country is able to unleash and leverage intellectual energy for social and economic progress.
One example is the Gross National Happiness metric. Your metric does not have to be fully developed but you need to be able to explain how to collect that data to calculate it.
The deadline for entries in June 20th and the winner will have expenses paid to present at the Ideas Economy conference on Human Potential in September.
