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Read our latest challenge prize news, along with thought leadership articles and blogs from our team and partners.

A grey haired woman looks at a phone|The prize received entries from innovators on every continent. Of the applications entered

From smart gloves to games: 175 brilliant ideas enter the Longitude Prize on Dementia

The Phoenix I smart wheelchair

Why focus on technology frontiers?

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The end of a Challenge, the future of surgical training

A busy dirt road with motor bikes and people on the side selling items of clothing

Call to accelerate innovation in rapidly growing cities

Innovation in the water sector

Democracy in the UK - polling station sign and arrows displayed on a metal fence

Challenge prizes and democracy

Wildfire burning through trees as two firefighters look on near their appliance engine|On dusty grass near dry shrug with smoke billlowing behind a anger of wildfires sign points to the most serious level warning in Organ Mountains New Mexico|Computer graphics over a scene of intense forest fire

Taming wildfires with innovation challenges

person with dark skin in glasses and scrubs pipetting into vials|person with dark skin in glasses and scrubs pipetting into vials

Accelerating meaningful innovation in global health

An abstract illustration of an earth split into a clean earth and a polluted earth.|A placard with words handwritten in bold black letters_ IF NOT NOW

Climate Change is a social justice problem, and we must act now