INCENTIVES FOR INNOVATORS III: Prizes and Prize Design (Bibliography)

Ihering Guedes Alcoforado
1 min readDec 8, 2017

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Brunt, Liam, Josh Lerner, and Tom Nicholas. 2012. “Inducement Prizes and Innovation.” Journal of Industrial Economics 45(4): 657–696.

Che, Yeon-Koo, and Ian Gale. 2003. “Optimal Design of Research Contests.” American Economic Review 93(3): 646- 671.

Khan, B. Zorina. 2015. “Inventing Prizes: An Historical Perspective on Innovation Awards and Technology Policy.” NBER Working Paper #21375.

Moser, Petra, and Tom Nicholas. 2013. “Prizes, Publicity, And Patents: Non-Monetary Awards As A Mechanism To Encourage Innovation.” Journal of Industrial Economics 61(3): 763–788.

Murray, Fiona, Scott Stern, Georgina Campbell, and Alan MacCormack. 2012. “Grand Innovation Prizes: A Theoretical, Normative, and Empirical Evaluation.” Research Policy 41(10): 1779–1792.

Kremer, Michael, and Heidi Williams. 2010. “Incentivizing Innovation: Adding to the Toolkit.” Innovation Policy and the Economy 1: 1–17.

Williams, Heidi. 2012. “Innovation Inducement Prizes: Connecting Research to Policy.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 31(3): 752–776.

Galasso, Alberto, Matthew Mitchell, and Gabor Virag. 2017. “A Theory of Grand Innovation Prizes.” Working Paper, University of Toronto.

Kay, Luciano. 2011. “The Effect of Inducement Prizes on Innovation: Evidence from the Ansari XPrize and the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge.” R&D Management 41(4): 360–377.

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Ihering Guedes Alcoforado
Ihering Guedes Alcoforado

Written by Ihering Guedes Alcoforado

Professor do Departamento de Economia da Universidade Federal da Bahia.

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