Procurement
Asia Leaders
Anousheh Ansari Proved Prizes Can Mobilise Research. XPRIZE Winners Still Need Customers
XPRIZE can define ambitious goals and attract innovators that conventional programmes miss. Anousheh Ansari must now measure how many winning technologies become deployed systems rather than ending at a compelling final demonstration.
Asia Leaders
Budi Gunadi Sadikin Has Turned Indonesia’s Health Reform into a Procurement-and-Utilisation Test
Indonesia is pairing free health checks with one of Asia’s largest medical-equipment and digital-health programmes. Budi Gunadi Sadikin’s banker-style procurement discipline now faces the harder task of sustained treatment across 6,000 inhabited islands.