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Innovation Prizes Through History - BusinessWeek
Here are some of the more notable innovation awards concocted by governments and special interests over the last 300 years
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So I found out while reading a book on home canning yesterday, that Napoleon was basically the person responsible for its invention, by declaring a contest for a way to preserve food: Cash prize of 12,000 francs. That was a lot of money in 1795...