X-prize

Glenn Harlan Reynolds discusses the X-prize for private space travel using a rather Austrian viewpoint.

In Praise of Failure, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Once again, we need an X-prize for this sort of thing!

Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Space Flight 2009

Globalizer Panels - held in Vienna this April, and featuring leading social entrepreneurs such as Jonathan Soros, president of Soros Fund Management and co-founder of the Fair Trial Initiative and Anousheh Ansari, the first woman to explore space as a paying guest, and sponsor of the $10 million Ansari X-prize - will help this select group of fellows develop strategies for growth (some sessions will be streamed at the Ashoka Globalizer site).

Julia Moulden: Innovators For The World: Ashoka Goes Global 2010

To resist corruption, subsidies and tarrifs seem like they should be banned completely, with the only perhaps allowable public funding being through prizes with minimum entry requirements, such as the X-prize was.

SeaSteading, And Founding Your Own Nation « Tai-Chi Policy 2008

Some of the listed possibilities (say, fusion), have enough financial incentive that an X-prize might not significantly help.

Neat! Grand, Long-Term X Prizes « Tai-Chi Policy 2008

Globalizer Panels - held in Vienna this April, and featuring leading social entrepreneurs such as Jonathan Soros, president of Soros Fund Management and co-founder of the Fair Trial Initiative and Anousheh Ansari, the first woman to explore space as a paying guest, and sponsor of the $10 million Ansari X-prize - will help this select group of fellows develop strategies for growth (some sessions will be streamed at the Ashoka Globalizer site).

Innovators For The World: Ashoka Goes Global 2010

Google's new X-prize: land a robot rover on the moon to win!

Looking ahead to 2008... ewillett 2007

This is a busy week for the program; as we covered earlier today, the Northrop Grumman Lunar X-prize announced two winners, and is part of the Centennial Challenge program.

Going Up? Top Floor, Space Elevator Games 2009 | Universe Today 2009

There are X-prize competitions in areas other than exploration and astronomy, including the life sciences, energy and the environment, and education and global development.

Masten wins $1 million X-Prize on Last Possible Day | Universe Today 2009

Speakers included Peter Diamondis (from the X-prize), Brian Binnie (who flew Spaceship One), Fred Pohl, the head of Nasa, Allen Steele, John Scalzi, and many others.

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