XPrize

Incentive Competition for making progress in Space Migration and other things

http://www.xprize.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Prize_Foundation

Oct4'2004 prize won by Burt Ratan's Space Ship One. He will partner with Richard Branson

There are also XPrize-s for: Automotive XPrize (100mpg Fuel Economy with Sustainable Business Model), Moon Mission, GenomIcs...

Sept'2014: launch of LearningXprize