Conrad Challenge Archive 2024 — 2026

59 records · 37 with descriptions59 条记录 · 37 条含描述

What repeats among Conrad teams

Conrad 团队中反复出现的规律

A descriptive reading of the archive — useful for calibration, never a claim that these patterns cause success.

对档案进行描述性阅读——可用于校准,但不把相关模式误称为成功的因果。

Coverage limit:覆盖范围说明: Full innovation descriptions were obtained for the 2026 Innovation Summit finalist cohort only. 2024 and 2025 are name-level records.仅 2026 届创新峰会决赛名单获得了完整的创新描述;2024 与 2025 年为名称级记录。

Records per year各年记录数

2026202635
2025202514
2024202410

Teams per category各赛道团队数

Aerospace & Aviation航空航天10
Cyber-Technology & Security网络技术与安全10
Energy & Environment能源与环境11
Health & Nutrition健康与营养12
The Water Challenge水挑战8
Other / Cross-category其他 / 跨赛道8

Team-size distribution团队规模分布

Two-person teams are the most common:两人团队最常见: 14 of the 35 records with reported team size.在 35 条有团队规模的记录中占 14 条。

2-person2 人队14
3-person3 人队8
4-person4 人队6
5-person5 人队7

Signals in detailed records详细记录中的信号

Counts use the 37 detailed records as the denominator.计数以 37 条详细记录为分母。

Quantified claim量化主张14
Stated price明确价格15
Patent claim专利主张3

Patent claims are rare.专利主张很少见。 Only 3 of the 31 calibrated 2026 finalist briefs claimed a patent; the archive likewise marks 3 patent signals among 37 detailed records.在用于校准的 31 份 2026 决赛材料中,仅约 3 份声称拥有专利;本档案的 37 条详细记录中同样只有 3 条专利信号。


The most useful chart最有用的一张图

Seven recurring winning archetypes七种反复出现的获奖原型

These are moves, not project ideas: collapse price, remove a critical resource, retrofit the installed base, replace a workflow, build a data moat, place defensibility in a recurring layer, or define one exact population and failure mode.

这些是策略动作,而不是项目点子:压低价格、移除关键资源、改造存量系统、替换工作流、建立数据护城河、把防御性放进持续收费层,或锁定一个精确人群与故障模式。

A

Price collapse价格坍塌

Institutional capability delivered at consumer cost.用消费级成本交付机构级能力。

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B

Zero-resource零资源约束

Delivers the function with a critical input removed.在移除一个关键输入的前提下交付同样功能。

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C

Retrofit存量改造

Clips onto the installed base instead of replacing it.夹在存量设备上,而不是替换它。

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D

Workflow replacement工作流替换

Attacks the process, not the device.攻击流程,而不是设备。

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E

Data moat数据护城河

The device is the wedge; the dataset is the business.设备是切入点,数据集才是生意。

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F

Razor / blade剃刀-刀片

The defensible IP sits in the consumable or service.可防御的 IP 放在耗材或服务里。

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G

Hyper-specific极端具体

Solves one population's exact version of the problem.只解决某一人群确切版本的问题。

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