<table width="950" border=0><tr><td width=500 > <div style="padding-right:20px;padding-left:20px;padding-bottom:20px;width:500px" class="topic_main"> <br> <span class="subhead">Welcome</span> <br> <span class="main_text"> Open Science Initiative is a non-profit organization that is working to improve innovation and collaboration within science. <br><br> We're looking at the process of innovation in science in a new way. One of the primary aims of our initiative is to create a prize-based mechanism for funding research. With prize-based funding, our organization publishes specific objectives to be achieved as conditions to receiving the prize funding. Prizes would be open for competition from all researchers in the scientific community. <br><br> Prize-based funding has been very successful in the private sector for stimulating innovation (i.e. <a href="http://www.xprize.org/">X-Prize</a>). However this type of funding mechanism has not been applied in the academic research community. Our aim is to implement academic prizes to encourage a new type of innovation in the scientific community. <br><br> Whether you are a scientist or donor, contact us to find out how you can contribute! Also - check out our new <%=link_to 'Getting Started Guide', post_path('getting-started')%> <br><br> Armen Arevian, PhD <br> Founder, Open Science Initiative <br> <a href="mailto:armen@opsci.org">armen@opsci.org</a> </span> </div> </td> <td width=10><img src="/images/clear.gif" width=50></td> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <span class="bigfont"> <span class="subhead">In the press</span> <br> Pittsburgh Technology Council interviews Open Science Initiative founder, Armen Arevian, for TEQ Magazine podcast: <a href="http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-21193/TS-208802.mp3">radio interview</a> <br><br> Founder, Armen Arevian, named one of "Pittsburgh 40 under 40" by Pittsburgh Magazine and PUMP for 2009 for his work fostering collaboration in science. <a href="http://www.40under40pittsburgh.org/">view</a> <br><br><br> <span class="subhead">Conritbute</span> <br> Scientists: join the community and help create prizes, search for prizes, or help with development - <a href="mailto:support@opsci.org">request an invitation key</a> <br><br> Donors: want to have direct impact on the progress of scientific research? <a href="support@opsci.org">Contact us</a> to find out how you can support. </td> </tr> </table> </span> page 2009-04-10T18:10:02Z 1 2010-03-10T02:37:13Z welcome