Prizes and Technological Innovation

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Prizes and Technological Innovation

Listen Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005 at 12:06 p.m. in Science, Tech Tuesday, Technology

From the Nobel Prize to the X Prize and everything in between, Tech Tuesday looks at what drives human innovation. Does technology move forward in small steps or leaps and bounds? And does financial or philosophical considerations work better as a reward?

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Guests

Edward Tenner

historian of technology; also columnist, "Technology Review"; Senior Research Associate at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation; and author of "Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology" (Vintage Paperback)

Paul Ceruzzi

Curator of Aerospace Electronics and Computing at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

Richard King

Director of The Solar Decathalon; and Team Leader for Photovoltaic Research and Development at the U.S. Department of Energy

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