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How to Plan Competitions
- Declare simple, measurable, and objective rules
- Define the problem rather than solution
- Choose the structure of the declaration (deadline, end)
- Provide security on why it is possible
- Make the challenge difficult but not impossible
- Consider the reward
- Provide a satisfying finish
- Distribute side prizes
- Have sponsors and backers
- Globalize it
- Determine intellectual property
- Philanthropic. Winner retains IP.
- Philanthropic. IP is put into open domain. - Commercial. IP is owned by the prize sponsor. - Commercial. IP is licensed (or shared) by the prize sponsor.
- Have a business model after the contest
- Set rules
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