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Zazzle Million Dollar Open Innovation Challenge

Deadline: 2012-02-17
Award: $1 Million (?)
Do you have the next great customizable product idea bubbling up and ready to explode on the scene of today’s revolutionary global customization market?

IPI News Innovation Contest 2012

Deadline: 2012-02-23
A second round of applications is now open in the IPI News Innovation Contest, a media innovation contest run by the International Press Institute (IPI) and funded by Google. Inc.

Campus Greening Idea Contest

Deadline: 2012-02-29
Award: $1,500
The Greening Idea Contest is to seek implementable and sustainable ideas to create a greener UTSA campus. The contest is open to all students, from both campuses, and stresses the importance of promoting the multidisciplinary collaborations across the colleges among undergraduate and graduate students.

Gauteng Innovation Competition

Deadline: 2012-02-29
Award: R1 million
The Gauteng province recognises that innovation drives social and economic development. The competition is therefore a platform to enhance local government service delivery in Gauteng through innovation.

Charlotte Venture Challenge

Deadline: 2012-02-29
Award: $100,000
The Charlotte Venture Challenge is the region’s premier business plan competition, organized by UNC Charlotte’s Charlotte Research Institute and The Ben Craig Center. For the first time, prize money to be awarded to the winning companies will top $100,000.

Ruderman Prize in Disability

Deadline: 2012-03-15
Award: $200,000
We are pleased to announce the Ruderman Prize in Disability to support excellence and innovation in services, advocacy and support of Jews with disabilities worldwide.

Made by Idea

Deadline: 2012-03-31
Award: 2% of first year sales, minimum of $2,500
If you have an idea for a new product, Matco wants to hear about it! Submit the idea to us and we will determine if it fits in our product line. If it does, you could be awarded 2% of the first year sales, a minimum of $2,500.

Microsoft BlueHat Prize

Deadline: 2012-04-01
The Microsoft BlueHat Prize contest is designed to generate new ideas for defensive approaches to support computer security.

Google Science Fair 2012

Deadline: 2012-04-01
Award: $50,000
Google is looking for the brightest young scientists from around the world to submit interesting, creative projects that are relevant to the world today.

Health People 2020 Leading Health Indicators App Challenge

Deadline: 2012-04-09
Award: $15,000
Help solve one or more of our nation’s high-priority health problems by making health indicators customizable and easy-to-use.

X Prize Exploration Prize

Deadline: 2012-04-10
Award: $10,000 to spend on a National Geographic Expedition
The X PRIZE Foundation wants to spread the word about the importance of Exploration in today's world.

Technology-Inspired Innovation

Deadline: 2012-04-11
Award: Grants up to £25,000
The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £2m in feasibility studies to stimulate innovation across our core technology areas and to help ensure that small and micro businesses in the UK are well equipped to respond to society's current and future challenges.

Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize

Deadline: 2012-05-15
Award: $10 million
The Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE is a $10 million global competition to stimulate innovation and integration of precision diagnostic technologies, making reliable health diagnoses available directly to "health consumers" in their homes.

Students Innovation Contest

Deadline: 2012-06-09
Award: $5,000
SIC is considered as the biggest project competition in AAST,Alexandria,Egypt.
The competition is held at the College of Engineering and Technology from 18/12/2011 to 9/6/2011.

In Vitro Meat Challenge

Deadline: 2012-06-30
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) aims with this contest to encourage the development and offering for sale of in vitro chicken meat in commercially significant quantities. A prize of $1,000,000 is offered to the first successful individual, group, or company to do so.

NOVA Innovation Competition

Deadline: 2012-06-30
Award: $50,000
NOVA External Venturing will reward innovations in the fields of construction products, advanced materials, energy efficiency and environmental sustainability with cash prizes and consideration for partnership opportunities with Saint-Gobain.

BOCA Bearing 2012 Innovation Competition

Deadline: 2012-11-30
Award: $10,000
Winners will be chosen based on a video submission of their innovative mechanical project that utilizes ball bearings, roller bearings, linear bearings or any form of full ceramic or ceramic hybrid bearings anywhere in the application.

Heritage Health Prize

Deadline: 2013-04-04
Studies have concluded that in 2006 well over $30 billion was spent on unnecessary hospital admissions. Is there a better way? Can we identify earlier those most at risk and ensure they get the treatment they need? The Heritage Provider Network (HPN) believes that the answer is "yes".

The Saltire Prize

Deadline: 2017-07-01
£10 million will be awarded to the team that can demonstrate in Scottish waters a commercially viable wave or tidal energy technology that achieves a minimum electrical output of 100GWh over a continuous 2 year period using only the power of the sea and is judged to be the best overall technology after consideration of cost, environmental sustainability and safety.

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