Comments on: What Have You Done With Your InnoCentive Prize Winnings?

By: Tom Kruer

Tom Kruer — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:47:48 +0000

After I splurged a little and bought myself a new road bicycle, I donated a lot of my challenge winnings to a number of non-profit organizations that do good things around the world. For example, I have contributed a big chunk of winnings toward helping prototype the inexpensive, brick making machine that was one of the challenges that I was lucky enough to win.

By: Marijan Pollak

Marijan Pollak — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:14:49 +0000

Well, so far I submited only one solution (and that just partly because some indispensable data were missing), but I think I would win that challenge for sure. Since I am inventor, I need lot of money just to have >>state of Art<>Virtuall Prototyping<< software to build and test my inventions on computer. Beside this, I am retired for health reasons and my pension is small, and moreover saddled with some long range credits and a mortgage that I have to pay. So I would try to get rid of my debt first of all after buying new computer(s), and then finance patenting my inventions that produce extremely cheap electricity. Cheap energy would lower prices of all products, make use of fossile fuels unnecesary so their price would drop also, and whole world would be able to buy more products, so production would rise and with it employment, and so on…… I wish I have ways to contact Rockefeller Foundation or somebody else who can invest in cheap energy production, but those people like Mr. Gates dont even answer that mail was received, so somebody has to recomend me. Then, future of World would not depend on my winning a chalenge, and my invention would help with Global Warming process also, feeding about bilion chronicaly hungry and periodicaly starving people.

By: MFB

MFB — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:41:31 +0000

I never won any award and probably will never win in the future due to my limiting abilities but I still have a flame in me for creating and perhaps along the way by contributing some ideas, very gifted people reading my communications may pick up somethings from me where they can perhaps achieve very great strides in development for many.

By: Origo

Origo — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:10:05 +0000

If I win any InnoCentive prize, I’ll send the IRS their cut, then apply the balance towards converting my Provisional Patent Applications to regular patent applications. In addition to the mechanism for maximizing plant growth, which I described in an InnoCentive challenge response, I have Provisional Patent Applications outstanding on a radical new type of razor blade, and on a diesel-type steam engine. Origo