# X PRIZE Workshop: Grand Challenges in Energy

The winner of the Ansari X Prize, SpaceShipOne, designed by Scaled Composites. (Image by Santosh Dawara on Flickr.)

### Instructor(s)

Dr. Erika Wagner

### MIT Course Number

ESD.172J / EC.421J

### As Taught In

Fall 2009

### Level

Graduate

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Some Description
Instructor(s) | Prof.
As Taught In | Spring 2002
Course Number | 2.24
Level | Undergraduate/Graduate
Features | Lecture Notes, Student Work

## Course Description

## Course Features

- Selected video lectures
- Captions/transcript
- Selected lecture notes
- Projects and examples
- Assignments with examples

## Course Description

In 2004, the Ansari X PRIZE for suborbital spaceflight captured the public's imagination and revolutionized an industry, leveraging a $10M prize purse into over $100M in innovation. Building from that success, the X PRIZE Foundation is now developing new prizes to focus innovation around "Grand Challenge" themes, including genomics, energy, healthcare, and education.

This course will examine the intersection of incentives and innovation, drawing on economic models, historic examples, and recent experience of the X PRIZE Foundation to help develop a future prize in Energy Storage Technologies.

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Erika Wagner. ESD.172J X PRIZE Workshop: Grand Challenges in Energy. Fall 2009. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

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