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Concerning Federally Sponsored Inducement Prizes in Engineering and Science (1999) / Chapter Skim
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Some Areas for Caution
Pages 13-13

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... What kind of accountability is appropriate for participants? We want to point to a series of questions that deserve special attention when undertaking or designing prize programs and activities: Do large prizes create a bandwagon effect, drawing effort to one particular challenge to the neglect of potentially more important or urgent challenges?
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