🥇TxP Progress Prize Winners

Thank you to everyone who submitted to the TxP Progress Prize! Ahead of tonight's showcase, we're excited we can now announce the winning and highly commended entries, from a field of nearly 100 brilliant submissions.

Reflecting the breadth of the TxP community, these entrants came from a wide range of different career backgrounds at the forefront of science and tech progress, including biotech, data science, VC, public policy, journalism, consulting, and even university:

Winner (£5000)

• Rian Whitton: Firm Power can reduce Britain's electricity prices

Runner up (£1000)

• Alec Thompson: Open Source the Law

Shortlisted (£750)

• Ashna Ahmad: Chilean Telexes and the Allocation Problem

• Ben Hopkinson: Britain’s Second Cities are Stuck: Let’s Get Them Moving Again

• Daniel Timms: The Case for a New City

Highly Commended

• Benedict Springbett: All abroad!

• Lydia Farnham: Innovation Ecosystem

• Lily Geidelberg: The case for British Biotech

• Tom Hallaron: The Bee Network must take to the skies

• Joe Hill: Venture Statecraft

• Duncan McClements and Jason Hausenloy: Insuring Progress

• Lucy McCormick: It’s time we let the robots take our jobs

• Alistair Schofield: Is a housing revolution key to getting Britain unstuck?

• Alex Telford: Should the UK embrace its role as an exporter of talent and ideas?

Do share the announcement post here, and thank you also to our brilliant judges — Kanishka, Sarah, Richard, Sam, Munira and Alona — to New Statesman Spotlight and Tobias at Civic Future, and to Emergent Ventures and Tyler Cowen for their support of the prize.

Finally, thank you to everyone else who entered! Please do keep writing and sharing your ideas, and we hope you enjoy reading the above responses as much as we did.

Andrew & Tom

@txp_io