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Article: X Prize Foundation plans more contests

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Sponsors of the $10 million Ansari X Prize, which helped propel a privately built rocket ship into space this week, announced Thursday a plan to offer a new set of prizes to spur innovation in other fields.

At a summit in San Francisco, officials with the X Prize Foundation and the World Technology Network said they will team up to create incentive prizes in areas such as medicine, transportation, energy and nanotechnology.

The two groups plan to announce the first WTN-X ...

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