“I can only do this once” Daffy Duck
You know the one where Daffy consumes high explosives and volitile solvents and immolates himself wearing a devil costume?
Oops, wrong one. You get the point.
The global distribution of ideas in the GE Ecomagination challenge
That is a huge pool of international trade incentives by almost every government and so every participant could agree to pool their ideas into one entry and split the prize to create a startup multinational corporation and
cash in on the government international trade incentives multipoint to multipoint.
It’s also a very equal way of giving the prize out as you would have to factor how others influenced the winning idea otherwise and cut those contributors in somehow. Dispense with that fuss and collect some government money from every government. It’s like reverse taxes. And it’s totally beneficial to the general welfare of society.
For those areas that are not on the map, I’m sure some nice people will put into a pool something useful to those areas. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing it.
So, the governments make their money back from social good and the taxes resulting from the new industries and economic growth. It’s just an investment not reverse taxes.