change.org Prize Comment

This is something my searching turned up on change.org, which I should mention is not the Obama transition team change.gov site.

I'm going to cut-and-paste the whole proposal here:

X-Prize Style Competions to Solve technological hurdles.
I Feel that if we were to begin having regular competitions for inventors and researchers we can put our country back on the top of the technology game instead lulling behind the japanese in so many fields.