Tapping The Global Brain
- Category: Feature
- Published on 2013-04-15
- Written by Maurice Smith
A cyberspace-connected world enables new wave of innovation prize contests seeking big solutions to big challenges
Napoleon's need to feed his invading armies and the British Navy's desire to navigate its way across distant oceans may seem about as far removed from the industrial colossus that is the growing oilsands industry of northern Alberta as one can get, but they now have something in common—they all have turned to cash prizes to solve intractable problems that threaten their expansion.