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Wired June 2006 Adam Rogers	The Challenger When Peter Diamandis gave the $10 million Ansari X Prize to the SpaceShipOne crew in 2004, he did more than build excitement about private space travel.
BusinessWeek November 20, 2008 Steve LeVine	Can X Prizes Spur Innovation? Contests such as Peter Diamandis' X Prizes offer big purses for breakthrough ideas. But can prize money do more to stimulate innovation than existing incentives?
Scientific American February 6, 2006 Patrick DiJusto	Winner Takes All New technology prizes are designed to spur innovation and challenge entrepreneurs to do something that outstrips the state-of-the-art in return for a sizable payoff. But is basic research being prized out of the market?
Entrepreneur September 2006 Steve Cooper	Eye on the Prize Are you trying to develop the next big thing? Enlist help from bright minds outside your company by throwing in a prize.
Wired September 13, 2007 Spencer Reiss	Google Offers $20 Million X Prize to Put Robot on Moon Google will award $20 million to the first private team to put a robot on the moon.
Fast Company May 2008	Vision Quest: Contests Throughout History Technology innovation inspired by competitions past and future.
BusinessWeek August 6, 2007 Christopher Palmeri	Space: The Private Frontier "Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots is Boldly Privatizing Space" is a worthwhile overview of the budding business of space travel.
BusinessWeek September 13, 2004 Otis Port	Gentlemen, Start Your Rockets The race for space is heating up as private outfits head for the launchpad. The business community is now starting to look hard at suborbital tourism to make sure they don't miss an opportunity.
Outside April 2007	To the Victor Peter Diamandis will pay you to save the planet.
National Defense January 2015 Stew Magnuson	More Government Agencies Using Challenge Prizes to Tackle Tough Technology Problems The Obama administration, with bipartisan support from Congress, has accelerated prize offerings, setting up the website Challenge.gov as a one-stop clearinghouse for all the prizes being offered by the federal government.
The Motley Fool October 6, 2006 Jack Uldrich	A Prize Beyond the Box? Prize money generates plenty of good publicity, but victory won't necessarily translate into good business. All are worthwhile quests, but what is the average investor to make of all of these contests?
Wired July 2003 Carl Hoffman	The Right Stuff Forget cyberspace. Geeks are about to conquer outer space. And the $10 million X Prize is just the beginning.
BusinessWeek February 2, 2004 Otis Port	Space Travel: Bringing Costs Down To Earth NASA should give startups room to maneuver
Fast Company March 2005 Ryan Underwood	60 Seconds on Doing the Impossible Peter Diamandis, the aerospace engineer and medical doctor, who created suborbital space competition, talks about the moon and nanotechnology.
Inc. January 2005 David H. Freedman	Entrepreneur of the Year In the entrepreneurial achievement of 2004, Burt Rutan became the first private businessman to launch human beings into space. His ultimate goal: to make space flight routine -- and turn a big profit.
Geotimes July 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Jetting Through Space President Bush announced on Jan. 4, 2004, his vision to return humans to the moon, Mars and beyond. Without the Cold War era impetus, however, NASA is searching for new ways to motivate development of innovative new vehicles to fly humans to the moon.
Fast Company May 2008 Anya Kamenetz	The Power of the Prize Lo and behold, contests actually work to spur innovation. So should we use them for everything?
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge Opens, NASA Sponsors $2 Million Prize X Prize has opened registration and outlined the rules for the $2 million Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, which calls for teams to design and develop a vehicle to simulate trips between the moon's surface and lunar orbit.
Entrepreneur November 2009 Joe Robinson	Is it Really Innovation? Peter Diamandis talks about what innovation really is while Tim O'Reilly calls the I-word era "dead on arrival."
Popular Mechanics August 2006 Jeff Wise	Crash Test The Vertical Dragster, built by Armadillo Aerospace for the X Prize Cup, will lift off with 3000 pounds of thrust. In the pursuit of private spaceflight, a group of texas rocket enthusiasts aren't afraid to blow up a few engines.
BusinessWeek September 24, 2007 Ronald Grover	Gentlemen, Start Your Rockets A group of space entrepreneurs is trying to get the Rocket Racing League off the launchpad.
Wired December 20, 2007 Mathew Honan	The X Prize Ecosystem Giving cash Prizes for solutions to thorny problems turns out to be a great way to tap the talents of geeks everywhere.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2007 Tim Beyers	To the Moon, Google! Google puts up a $30 million cash prize to whoever can explore 500 meters of the lunar surface and transmit high-definition video back to Earth before December 31, 2012.
Wired December 2004	After the X Prize Manned space travel's best hope is the private sector, not NASA. In the open market, entrepreneurs and space hobbyists will do in a decade what NASA couldn't do in 46 years: provide safe, reliable trips to the heavens for the cost of a Caribbean cruise.
Bio-IT World March 2006	News Blast X Prize... Junk Discovery... Susceptibility... Resistance...
Wired December 20, 2007 Eric Hagerman	1 Gallon of Gas, 100 Miles -- $10 Million: The Race to Build the Supergreen Car The Automotive X Prize will award at least $10 million to the team that builds a 100-mpg machine and then wins a race against other green vehicles.
BusinessWeek June 21, 2004 Otis Port	Private Space Travel: We May Have Liftoff If all goes well on June 21, the world's first private space plane will have shot 62 miles up into space before gliding back to land at the Mojave airport north of Los Angeles, launching a new revolution in space tourism.
Popular Mechanics February 2, 2010 Jennifer Bogo	X Prize CEO Thinks Obama's 2010 NASA Budget Good for Space The new approach NASA has taken has laid the foundation for the Google, Cisco and Apple computers of space to be born. And, ultimately, lays the foundation for the rest of us to have a chance to get to go to space.
Wired June 22, 2009 Chris Hardwick	Congratulations Human, You've Been Accepted to Singularity University Nine weeks of deep thought with eminent theorists and business leaders.
AFP eWire June 9, 2008	Prize Rewards Charities that Collaborate Nominations are being accepted now for The Collaboration Prize, a $250,000 award being offered by the Lodestar Foundation for U.S. charities.
Popular Mechanics April 25, 2008 Erik Sofge	Inside the Forgotten X Prize--the One That Can Save Your Life An extensive look at the Archon X Prize in Genomics, the $10 million race for a cheap, disease-hunting gene sequencer that could land on your kitchen counter sooner than you think.
Popular Mechanics March 21, 2008 Masamitsu & Sullivan	Automotive X Prize Revs Up for 100-mpg Race (With Video!) The X Prize Foundation threw its official coming-out party yesterday for a 100-mpg challenge that could upend the automotive industry.
Inc. November 1, 2009 Shivani Vora	Making It Work: Student Interns Tips for attracting young talent and making the most of your internship program.
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Glenn Harlan Reynolds	Future of the Space Business: How Private Rocketeers Got Real To achieve liftoff at this watershed moment when they could begin to usurp NASA's stranglehold on space, billionaires rely on the propulsive power of profit in an industry based on competition and smarts.
Popular Mechanics August 2007 Erik Sofge	Rocket Racing League Struggles to Get Off the Ground A promising new aerial sport stalled at the X Prize Cup. Instead of a demo race, the league unveiled a nonworking rocket-plane mockup and sent a single jet around an aerial course.
Chemistry World June 11, 2012 Laura Howes	Nobel Prize Amount Cut Recently, returns on the capital of the foundation have fallen short of the amount needed to support the prizes.
Bio-IT World March 2006 Kevin Davies	Church Inquiry Gets Personal Harvard Medical School geneticist George Church with his plan for the Personal Genome Project is a likely contender for the X Prize that will be awarded to the group or individual that most helps cross the $1,00 genome threshold.
Reason November 2004 Ronald Bailey	Build a Better Mouse If scientists can reliably lengthen the lives of mice, the Methuselah Mouse Prize organizers believe, they will be well on their way to finding out how to do the same thing for people.
Popular Mechanics May 12, 2008 Michael Milstein	NASA Makes Space U-Turn, Opening Arms to Private Industry The agency seems to be shifting course, as NASA officials insist that the budding commercial spacecraft fleet represents the only way the United States can realize its dreams of solar-system conquest on schedule and at an affordable cost.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Tekla S. Perry	Crowning the Clean Tech Stars New contest spurs innovative ideas of energy conservation.
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 John Voelcker	Eyes on the Prize Here, the author sits in on energy equivalence debates -- with millions of dollars for a "100 mpg car" riding on the results. The impetus for the session -- and the Auto X Prize itself -- is the growing awareness of climate change.
HBS Working Knowledge November 3, 2014 Carmen Nobel	Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize What makes the Nobel Prize so coveted? Stephen Greyser and Mats Urde discuss the first field-based study exploring the prize from a brand and reputation perspective.
Inc. October 1, 2002 Donna Fenn	Keep Me a Prize Sure, you can build a company and hope that it outlives you, but why stop there? A prize program offers immortality.
Chemistry World October 7, 2015	Live blog: Unravelling DNA repair mechanisms takes chemistry Nobel Our live blog explains the vital statistics of the Nobel chemistry prize and the countdown to the award announcement.
Popular Mechanics September 21, 2007 Matt Sullivan	Mourning DIY, Debunking Halo 3 Hype and More: Podcast A podcast that will teach you some high-tech basics, explain what's wrong with Halo 3, and discuss the Google Lunar X Prize.
Fast Company January 2006 Mark N. Vamos	Editor's Letter Competitive battles offer the chance to see strategy in action, to watch and assess moves and countermoves, to root for one side or the other.
AFP eWire April 22, 2015	Nominations Now Open for the AFP/Skystone Partners Research Prize Authors of published research works on fundraising and philanthropy are invited to submit books or monographs of 50 or more pages for the 2016 Skystone Partners Prize for Research on Fundraising and Philanthropy.
Chemistry World October 5, 2015	Behind closed doors: How to win the Nobel prize Few know the process by which the winner or winners are chosen. We go behind closed doors to find out how the Nobel committee make their selection.
AFP eWire February 4, 2008	Nominations Open for Purpose Prize, Honoring Older Americans Involved in Charitable Work Americans age 60 and over who address critical social problems with their creativity, talent and innovation may be nominated for this prize.
The Motley Fool September 28, 2006 Rich Smith	Intel to Dell: You Guys Stink Intel sponsors a $1 million contest to design a decent-looking computer. Basically, it is looking for an EBA iMac.