*Want to solve global crises? $5 million prize seeks fresh ideas | Reuters : *http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-crisis-prize-idUSKBN13J035
“We’re trying to solve today’s problems with yesterday’s tools,” said the 89-year-old, who launched the Global Challenges Foundation in 2012. “We believe a new shape of collaboration is needed to address the most critical challenges in our globalized world.” The New Shape Prize - which will be awarded next November, after entries close in May - aims to spur fresh thinking about innovative means to solve problems that cross borders and are hard to tackle when most political terms of office are short and many businesses and markets remain focused on near-term gains. “The public and even the private sector are underestimating the risks because we are too short-sighted in our decision-making,” said Mats Andersson, a former CEO of Sweden’s largest pension fund and now head of Szombatfalvy’s foundation. Entries for the New Shape Prize close on May 24, 2017, and the winning idea will be chosen by a panel of academic experts and a high-level international jury. The Global Challenges Foundation will then back efforts to put that idea into practice, Andersson said. Want to solve global crises? $5 million prize seeks fresh ideas | Reuters : http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-crisis-prize-idUSKBN13J035 -- Olivian Breda 0724-947.147 https://olivian.ro
