There are a number of well-known awards recognizing innovation in government. The most prominent is the Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance’s “Innovations in American ...

My last post was about the lack of innovation involved in innovation contests (at least by the contest sponsors). I’m not the only one thinking about innovation contests – it’s also the subject of a ...

XPrize, the organization behind the $10 million Qualcomm tricorder prize as well as Google's $30 million sponsorship of a Lunar landing effort, has an ambitious roadmap that spans wearables that ...

Ideas That Empower, an innovation contest that challenges young professionals and students to design practical, scalabl ...

Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT) today announced a worldwide innovation contest with cash awards totaling $50,000. The “Innovate the Future” contest creates a global forum for interested participants ...

The UIDAI has invited startups and researchers to come up with solutions to reduce the incidence of fraudulent Aadhaar cards.

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT DATA, a global IT services provider, announced today that it has selected Barcelona-based startup Gestoos as the Champion of the Open Innovation Contest 7.0 based on its AI ...

The Visayan Electric are doubling down on innovation with the launch of “Innovate Cebu,” an innovation contest open to young professionals and students aimed at providing solutions for real-world ...

When Netflix hit the wall trying to improve the accuracy of its movie recommendation software, a key way to get customers to keep renting movies, the Los Gatos company turned its challenge into a ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT DATA announced today the launch of its 9th Open Innovation Contest. Since 2014, the company has hosted the competition to invite startups from around ...

You get the feeling that innovation contests have hit the mainstream when one is sponsored by Tony (Iron Man) Stark, but these contests are making real-life superheroes out of young entrepreneurs ...