While the French government has recently launched \u201cLe Moteur de la Recherche\u201d to increase collaboration between public and industrial research, President Barack Obama recently signed a memorandum that highlights issues related to the implementation of his Administration\u2019s commitment to increase the use of prizes and challenges as tools for promoting open government, innovation, and other national priorities. This article is a summary of Obama\u2019s memorandum.<\/p>\n
In September 2009, the Obama released his Strategy for American Innovation, calling for agencies to increase their ability to promote and harness innovation by using policy tools such as prizes and challenges.<\/p>\n
Examples:<\/p>\n
Prizes and challenges have a number of potential benefits such as<\/p>\n
To support agencies in the execution of prizes, Obama\u2019s Administration will release sometime in June a web-based platform for prizes and challenges.\u00a0 This platform will provide a medium for agencies to post problems and invite communities of solvers to suggest, collaborate on, and deliver solutions.<\/p>\n
There is a distinction between \u201crecognition\u201d prizes and \u201cincentive\u201d prizes. A recent study<\/a> identified six types of prize. As a prize should not be an end in itself, agencies should select the type of prize best able to accomplish the broader aim:<\/p>\n Agencies also should take care to plan for the post-prize phase, reinforcing the impact of an award with other investments and follow-up activities.<\/p>\n Agencies should think broadly about the role that effective partners can play in administering or publicizing contests.\u00a0 It may be appropriate, where legally permissible, to seek Federal agency or non-federal partners to help meet agency goals.<\/p>\n Open Innovation is a global trend. One of the tools of Open Innovation is crowdsourcing (or prize or challenge) web-based platforms. Such platforms appeared in the United States over 10 years ago. Since then many variations appeared around the world. There is now a general tendency for governments to adopt such tools or to encourage the use of such tools. Which \u201cInnovation 2.0 platform\u201d will be the most efficient? Who will find first the winning solution?<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While the French government has recently launched \u201cLe Moteur de la Recherche\u201d to increase collaboration between public and industrial research, President Barack Obama recently signed a memorandum that highlights issues related to the implementation of his Administration\u2019s commitment to increase the use of prizes and challenges as tools for promoting open government, innovation, and other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[260,375,405,861,873,1009,1053,1087,1094,1156,1196,1224,1363,1746],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Focus on All Stages of the Prize, including Pre-Prize and Post-Prize Stages<\/h4>\n
Choose the Right Vehicles and Partners for the Prize<\/h4>\n
Conclusions<\/h3>\n
Links and References<\/h3>\n
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