50+ Innovation Prizes on Challenge.gov
The US federal government has embraced open innovation. The goal is to accelerate innovation, resolution of tough problems and an agency’s core mission by offering cash prizes to all comers.
Challenge.gov has 56 challenges from 27 organization so it appears to be getting traction. Most of the prizes are a few thousand dollars but I did see one for $50K.
Some of the challenges definitely involve cognitive design. For example check out, the Healthy People 2020 contest. They are looking applications that help professionals participate in our national agenda for disease prevention and health promotion. Contests in the education and health category tend to have a cognitive design element.
Interested to hear from readers that are participating in Challenge.gov.
