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]]> By: Paul Shin http://www.sciencecheerleader.com/2010/05/can-offering-prizes-for-innovative-solutions-help-the-gulf/comment-page-1/#comment-3334 Paul Shin Thu, 13 May 2010 19:48:44 +0000 http://www.sciencecheerleader.com/?p=2786#comment-3334 Innovation in any endeavor can be driven using either the "push" or "pull" paradigm. The most common "push" is exemplified by the current funding mechanism in science, grants. Whether from the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH) or any of a myriad of governmental funding agencies, driving research via this method of "pushing the cart up the hill" is slow, arduous and full of bureaucracy! It's a time honored tradition in the academic world for sure though! The "pull" mechanism of prizes, however, is less common and appears to be useful as an incentive for actual innovation- as evidenced with its presented historical development! One really novel prize not mentioned above is the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) "One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge" to weed out pseudoscientific claims! (See www.randi.org for details) Psychologically, people respond to spontaneous incentives like "prizes" and "awards" more so than constant incentives like allowances for doing chores- believe me, I am fighting that battle on the home-front with my kids! Whatever mechanism works- my bet is on the "pull" method with prizes and awards- it's clear some lubricating of the wheels of the proverbial cart is needed and the Spradlin’s Emergency Response 2.0 project may very well be what's needed to get this Gulf oil problem handled more expediently! Innovation in any endeavor can be driven using either the “push” or “pull” paradigm. The most common “push” is exemplified by the current funding mechanism in science, grants. Whether from the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH) or any of a myriad of governmental funding agencies, driving research via this method of “pushing the cart up the hill” is slow, arduous and full of bureaucracy! It’s a time honored tradition in the academic world for sure though! The “pull” mechanism of prizes, however, is less common and appears to be useful as an incentive for actual innovation- as evidenced with its presented historical development! One really novel prize not mentioned above is the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) “One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge” to weed out pseudoscientific claims! (See http://www.randi.org for details) Psychologically, people respond to spontaneous incentives like “prizes” and “awards” more so than constant incentives like allowances for doing chores- believe me, I am fighting that battle on the home-front with my kids!

Whatever mechanism works- my bet is on the “pull” method with prizes and awards- it’s clear some lubricating of the wheels of the proverbial cart is needed and the Spradlin’s Emergency Response 2.0 project may very well be what’s needed to get this Gulf oil problem handled more expediently!

]]> By: Paul Shin http://www.sciencecheerleader.com/2010/05/can-offering-prizes-for-innovative-solutions-help-the-gulf/comment-page-1/#comment-4868 Paul Shin Thu, 13 May 2010 19:48:00 +0000 http://www.sciencecheerleader.com/?p=2786#comment-4868 Innovation in any endeavor can be driven using either the "push" or "pull" paradigm. The most common "push" is exemplified by the current funding mechanism in science, grants. Whether from the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH) or any of a myriad of governmental funding agencies, driving research via this method of "pushing the cart up the hill" is slow, arduous and full of bureaucracy! It's a time honored tradition in the academic world for sure though! The "pull" mechanism of prizes, however, is less common and appears to be useful as an incentive for actual innovation- as evidenced with its presented historical development! One really novel prize not mentioned above is the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) "One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge" to weed out pseudoscientific claims! (See www.randi.org for details) Psychologically, people respond to spontaneous incentives like "prizes" and "awards" more so than constant incentives like allowances for doing chores- believe me, I am fighting that battle on the home-front with my kids! Whatever mechanism works- my bet is on the "pull" method with prizes and awards- it's clear some lubricating of the wheels of the proverbial cart is needed and the Spradlin’s Emergency Response 2.0 project may very well be what's needed to get this Gulf oil problem handled more expediently! Innovation in any endeavor can be driven using either the “push” or “pull” paradigm. The most common “push” is exemplified by the current funding mechanism in science, grants. Whether from the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH) or any of a myriad of governmental funding agencies, driving research via this method of “pushing the cart up the hill” is slow, arduous and full of bureaucracy! It’s a time honored tradition in the academic world for sure though! The “pull” mechanism of prizes, however, is less common and appears to be useful as an incentive for actual innovation- as evidenced with its presented historical development! One really novel prize not mentioned above is the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) “One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge” to weed out pseudoscientific claims! (See http://www.randi.org for details) Psychologically, people respond to spontaneous incentives like “prizes” and “awards” more so than constant incentives like allowances for doing chores- believe me, I am fighting that battle on the home-front with my kids!

Whatever mechanism works- my bet is on the “pull” method with prizes and awards- it’s clear some lubricating of the wheels of the proverbial cart is needed and the Spradlin’s Emergency Response 2.0 project may very well be what’s needed to get this Gulf oil problem handled more expediently!

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