Fast Company iPad edition promotion

X-prize

X-Prize Winning Car: Like the General Lee but Less Hazardous to Planet With 100-plus MPG

Half of the $10 million prize fund for the fuel efficiency Automotive X-Prize is about to be handed to the team behind The Very Light Car--the vehicle has just beaten the competition's target of 100 miles per gallon efficiency.READ MORE

And the New X-Prize Contest Will Be...

Last summer, the X-Prize Foundation announced that it would hold a new competition to create sustainable jet fuel. True to the X-Prize modus operandi, the foundation followed by holding a meta competition to invent the next ...READ MORE

The X-Prize of Innovation Contests

My last post was about the lack of innovation involved in innovation contests (at least by the contest sponsors). I'm not the only one thinking about innovation contests - it's also the subject of a story in Business Week, "Can X ...READ MORE