Challenge.gov Crosses New Milestone in Open Innovation
The digitalgov.gov website noted that Challenge.gov, the official website for crowdsourcing and prize competitions across government, celebrated its five-year anniversary in October 2015. Now, not even one year later, the site has reached another milestone. On Monday, two agencies launched new challenges, bringing the total number of competitions on Challenge.gov across the 700 mark. The 700th challenge, Start a SUD Startup, comes from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse. The challenge looks to award biomedical scientists up to $100,000 to help transition their research ideas into viable business opportunities.
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