News24: Siemens Stiftung is looking to spur innovation and has launched an international competition that will spotlight innovation and inventors. “Whether you are a school, university, research institution, NGO, company or inventor, everybody in South Africa who has invented a technology solution to basic development challenges is invited to take part in the competition,” said […]
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If you’ve had an idea on how to stop rising water from invading coastal communities and you have yet to act on it, now may be the perfect time to do so. The Idea Village and Greater New Orleans Foundation are working together to give one lucky entrepreneur $50,000 to help him or her turn
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The Week: THE X PRIZE foundation, a non-profit foundation promoting technology, has offered a $10m prize to anyone who can make Star Trek’s medical “tricorder” diagnostic machine a reality. The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize was announced in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show. The X Prize Foundation’s Chairman Peter Diamandis said: “I’m probably the
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Northern Nevada Business Weekly: A local version of “Shark Tank†is coming to Nevada. The TV show in which budding entrepreneurs fast pitch their business ideas to a team of investors is being replicated in a $100,000 contest sponsored by the Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy Commercialization (NIREC) and the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic
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Many entrepreneurs hope for that one in a million business. DeAnna Reposa took it a step further making it to one in 100 entrepreneurs who reached the final stages of Martha Stewart’s Made in America contest. Newport Beach Independent Newspaper: Reposa’s business, Simple Peace, sells reusable shopping bags that are made in Orange County from
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Telegraph: Edward Linacre, inventor of Airdrop, won £10,000 last year to develop the device, which he describes as a low-cost way to grow crops in very dry regions. Mr Linacre, from Melbourne, Australia, was inspired by a desert beetle’s technique of capturing moisture from air. Relying on the principle that even the driest air contains
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PC Mag: Through a competition to be hosted by a private St. Petersburg foundation, designers have been asked to propose a memorial, which could become anything from a classic statue to a memorial plaque to, fittingly, an electronic installation. A jury of St. Petersburg IT professionals, as well as an online voting process, will ultimately
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Utah Pulse: Utah Valley University business student entrepreneurs Dallas Robinson and Mike Buonomo, who started their growing lip-balm company Kisstixx with a small business loan, shared their story in a video for the National Small Business Week Video Contest and were one of the four winners selected by the U.S. Small Business Administration. As featured
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KansasCity.com: The Small Business Administration is looking for videos showing how its programs and services have helped small companies. Three videos will be shown at a special event May 24 and could appear as part of National Small Business Week, the agency’s annual event. Videos must be original and last two minutes or less. The
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Pet Product News: The pet product idea casting call, which ends April 23, will be for the show’s fifth season. Inventors can still submit pet product ideas until April 30, when the season’s open casting call ends. Ideas are submitted online. The show’s premise is to help inventors develop their product ideas into finished products
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