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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"prizes"”.
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Prizes as a means to foster innovation: a case study analysis
Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-94).
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A Framework for Adoption of Challenges and Prizes in US Federal Agencies: A Study of Early Adopters
<p>In recent years we have witnessed a shift in the innovation landscape of organizations from closed to more open models embracing solutions from the outside. Widespread use of the internet and web 2.0 technologies have made it easier for organizations to connect with their clients, service …
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The incentives and disincentives of innovation prizes : a survey of the dropout teams from Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE
… to this understanding by focusing on innovation prizes (as applied to the energy industry). It aims to examine how prizes provide a useful but also a limiting incentive for companies in a particular arena of R&D. Specifically, the thesis involves a survey of the teams that dropped out from a …
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Preschoolers' Saving Performance: The Role of Budgeting and Psychological Distance
… to purchase later available more-preferred prizes instead of spending them on immediately available less-preferred prizes. N=75 three- to five-year-olds were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: Baseline, Budgeting-Self, or Budgeting-Other. Children completed a general planning …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory: Contests and Matching
… first two chapters explore the role of target prizes in contests with sabotage. The third chapter studies the optimal college admissions mechanism where students are horizontally and vertically differentiated.
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PER UNA LETTERATURA VINCENTE: INFLUSSI DI DEUTSCHER BUCHPREIS E PREIS DER LEIPZIGER BUCHMESSE SULLA STRUTTURAZIONE DEL CAMPO LETTERARIO TEDESCO CONTEMPORANEO
This dissertation focuses on two German book prizes (Deutscher Buchpreis and Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse) that have been instituted in 2005 and by comparing them it aims to outline an overview of contemporary German literature and to analyze the influence that such institutions create in the …
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Perceptions and attitudes of students, teachers, and parents about middle school science fairs
… goals. Attitudes toward competition, awarding of prizes, voluntary versus required participation, and alternatives to science fairs were also examined and compared among the groups.
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Passion and Intellect in the Music of Elizabeth Maconchy DBE (1907–1994)
… and ability. Winner of numerous substantial prizes and champion of new music and young composers, she was a figure of true tenacity in the face of serious illness and difficult circumstances. This study serves as an introduction to the composer’s life and music bringing together significant …
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An Experimental Investigation of 2-Person Bargaining
… over how to divide lottery tickets with chips as prizes. The information about the monetary values is manipulated, and its effect on the strategic behavior of the players is studied. The cause and the control of disagreement are discussed in the general context of conflict of interest.
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Incentive competitions as a policy tool for technological innovation
… on the impact of motivators within small online prizes but these prizes are very different to large incentive competitions in terms of the intended motivators incorporated and the competition environment. Through qualitative and quantitative analysis of one large incentive competition- the …
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Age and Loss Aversion: Impact on PGA Tour Professionals
… experienced participants competing for large prizes in a competitive environment. In the study, I find these players exhibit risk-seeking behavior in losses and risk-averse behavior in gains. However, age did not significantly affect players' risk-seeking or risk aversion behaviors.
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The Ill-Treatment of Their Countrywoman: Liberated African Women, Violence, and Power in Tortola, 1807–1834
… As the Royal Navy captured slave ships as prizes of war and condemned enslaved Africans to Vice-Admiralty courts, formerly enslaved Africans became “captured negroes” or “liberated Africans,” making the subjects in the British colonies. This work, which takes a microhistorical approach to …
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Essays in Microeconomics
… the sorting and incentive effects of tournament prizes by employing a novel two-part model which we apply to a unique data set of road running race results. We present a counterfactual example of how a hypothetical change in prizes would be predicted to change race participation and speed.In …
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Can we reduce parking at MIT : design and development of a functional commuter dashboard
… Those points could then be redeemed for prizes including a small set-value or entries into lottery raffles for larger prizes. Initial results from the introduction of AccessMyCommute as well as the first point program suggest that in the absence of other incentives, particularly any …
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The Scotiabank Giller Prize: How Canadian
In Canada, as elsewhere, major literary prizes certify the works they distinguish, spurring a more intensive engagement with them at the levels of criticism, pedagogy, and popular culture, and effecting a major shift in the way this literature is discussed and evaluated, marketed and consumed. …
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Accumulation model processes of human suborbital space transportation industry emergence
… a supplemental set of processes, describing how prizes influence industry emergence. The current research proposes that institutional activities contribute primarily to the accumulation of sociopolitical legitimacy, and resource endowment activities contribute primarily to cognitive legitimacy. …
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Compasso d'Oro and Changes in the Italian Domestic Landscape
… between selected items of the Compasso d'Oro prizes, and discusses how they reflect the changes in technology, design, and society over five decades from 1950 to 2000. A computer-generated three-dimensional rendering of an interior of an apartment in Milan featured during each decade shows a …
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Why We Like What We Like: A Functional Approach to the Study of Human Evaluative Responding
… fictitious brand products or potential prizes were related to one another, we systematically manipulated the direction and magnitude of evaluative responding. These relational effects were evident when a range of direct and indirect (IAT, IRAP and Affective Priming) tasks were employed. …
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"Existential Realism: Modernism and the Ethics of Agency in the Franco-American Existentialist Tradition, 1937-1955"
… fiction critiques a notion of authenticity that prizes overweening ability of one’s own ability to act. Ultimately “Existential Realism” shows both how existentialist thought enriches our appreciation of a strain of American fiction, and also how action-driven fiction dramatizes the triumphs and …
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A Theory and Implementation Evaluation of The Allan Gray Entrepreneurial Challenge
… (iii) the original leaderboard with weekly prizes was found to be more motivating for students; (iv) technical issues hampered the user experience, leading to decreased interest and high dropout rates among students; (v) shifting from teacher-assessed weekly assignments to automated Built-in …
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