Incentive
noun
Something that motivates or encourages someone to do something.
The company offered a cash incentive for employees to lose weight.
Often appears as...
- cash incentive
- bonus incentive
noun
A factor, often a benefit or reward, that inspires or persuades a person or organization to act in a certain way.
Government tax breaks provide an incentive for businesses to reduce their carbon emissions.
Often appears as...
- government incentive
- tax incentive
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Academic
noun
A payment or benefit to stimulate production or output in an economy.
The local government introduced incentives to increase output in the manufacturing industry.
Often appears as...
- economic incentive
- production incentive
Usage tips
Academic
noun
Something that motivates or encourages someone to do something.
The company offered a cash incentive for employees to lose weight.
Often appears as...
- cash incentive
- bonus incentive
noun
A factor, often a benefit or reward, that inspires or persuades a person or organization to act in a certain way.
Government tax breaks provide an incentive for businesses to reduce their carbon emissions.
Often appears as...
- government incentive
- tax incentive
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A payment or benefit to stimulate production or output in an economy.
The local government introduced incentives to increase output in the manufacturing industry.
Often appears as...
- economic incentive
- production incentive
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Motivational Tool
Incentives are used to push people towards achieving goals or improving performance.
She signed up for the marathon because the prize money was a great incentive.
Pro Tip 2/3Personal or Group
Incentives can be for an individual or a group, like a team or company.
The sales team had an incentive to be the best this quarter.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Reinforcement
Incentives often involve rewards rather than punishments.
Children were given incentives to read more books during their summer vacation.
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Shai Agassi: A new...
We're the only ones who don't have the price set right. We don't have the industry set right. We don't have any incentive to go and resolve it across the U.S. Now where is the car industry on that? Very interesting. The car industry has been focused just on themselves. They basically looked at it and said, "Car 1.0
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They had deployed all the right incentives, They paid professionals to write and edit thousands of articles. Well-compensated managers oversaw the whole thing to make sure it came in on budget and on time. A few years later, another encyclopedia got started. Different model, right?
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Everything you think you...
It's a century since we made this really fateful decision to take addicts and punish them and make them suffer, because we believed that would deter them; it would give them an incentive to stop. And a few years ago, I was looking at some of the addicts in my life who I love,
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Build a tower, build a...
They produced the tallest structures in the least amount of time. So there's deep lessons for us about the nature of incentives and success. So, you might Why would anyone actually spend time writing a marshmallow challenge? And the reason is, I help create
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reproductive rate and are very vulnerable to overfishing and extinction so if managed correctly anaphoras newfound popularity with international visitors could give mantas long term protection by providing a strong economic incentive to conserve rather
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opportunity cost of waiting for that dividend is simply not a viable option secondly we have a scale problem today with fully protecting less than one percent of our seas we need a radically new approach to the way we incentive
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communities benefit the local economies that's what it's all about ecotourism and primate watching can provide a new income for local communities and an incentive to protect pilots and their home it's clearly
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So likewise there can be agarwood plantation also. and the incentive comes if there is a trade, is the homestead garden owner he is able to sell his tree and get some money for his family
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African Bullfrog Dad...
it's a powerful incentive for him to stay. There's another good reason Tadpoles need help to survive the tropical sun and its shrinking effect on their shallow pools.
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Is there a reproducibilit...
are expected to produce big results frequently. Important papers can advance careers, generate media interest, and secure essential funding, so there's slim motivation for researchers to challenge their own exciting results. In addition, little incentive exists to publish results unsupportive of the expected hypothesis.
Video examples
Shai Agassi: A new...
We're the only ones who don't have the price set right. We don't have the industry set right. We don't have any incentive to go and resolve it across the U.S. Now where is the car industry on that? Very interesting. The car industry has been focused just on themselves. They basically looked at it and said, "Car 1.0
Video examples
The puzzle of motivation...
They had deployed all the right incentives, They paid professionals to write and edit thousands of articles. Well-compensated managers oversaw the whole thing to make sure it came in on budget and on time. A few years later, another encyclopedia got started. Different model, right?
Video examples
Everything you think you...
It's a century since we made this really fateful decision to take addicts and punish them and make them suffer, because we believed that would deter them; it would give them an incentive to stop. And a few years ago, I was looking at some of the addicts in my life who I love,
Video examples
Build a tower, build a...
They produced the tallest structures in the least amount of time. So there's deep lessons for us about the nature of incentives and success. So, you might Why would anyone actually spend time writing a marshmallow challenge? And the reason is, I help create
Video examples
Feeding Frenzy: Manta...
reproductive rate and are very vulnerable to overfishing and extinction so if managed correctly anaphoras newfound popularity with international visitors could give mantas long term protection by providing a strong economic incentive to conserve rather
Video examples
Investing in fish...
opportunity cost of waiting for that dividend is simply not a viable option secondly we have a scale problem today with fully protecting less than one percent of our seas we need a radically new approach to the way we incentive
Video examples
The First Person To See...
communities benefit the local economies that's what it's all about ecotourism and primate watching can provide a new income for local communities and an incentive to protect pilots and their home it's clearly
Video examples
Is Your Perfume Made...
So likewise there can be agarwood plantation also. and the incentive comes if there is a trade, is the homestead garden owner he is able to sell his tree and get some money for his family
Video examples
African Bullfrog Dad...
it's a powerful incentive for him to stay. There's another good reason Tadpoles need help to survive the tropical sun and its shrinking effect on their shallow pools.
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George Will
Journalist
Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.
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Fatih Birol
Turkish Economist
I believe there should be some financial incentives to make the right choice: to make them to buy the right car or not to buy a car but using public transport systems. I believe that these financial incentives are important.
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Geoffrey Canada
American Activist
Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.
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Erik Voorhees
American Businessman
I was very excited about a currency that was not controlled by a central government, that could be a free market currency. That was all the incentive I needed to dedicate my life to it.
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Bill Gates
American Businessman
The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.
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Grant Shapps
British Politician
Incentives and infrastructure should encourage development and that development needs to contain the right types of housing in the right places.
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Eric Maskin
American Economist
A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.
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Herbert Hoover
American President
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
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Hosea Ballou
American Clergyman
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
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Joshua Kimmich
German Footballer
Praise is great, but it's also an incentive.
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George Will
Journalist
Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.
Quote examples
Fatih Birol
Turkish Economist
I believe there should be some financial incentives to make the right choice: to make them to buy the right car or not to buy a car but using public transport systems. I believe that these financial incentives are important.
Quote examples
Geoffrey Canada
American Activist
Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.
Quote examples
Erik Voorhees
American Businessman
I was very excited about a currency that was not controlled by a central government, that could be a free market currency. That was all the incentive I needed to dedicate my life to it.
Quote examples
Bill Gates
American Businessman
The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.
Quote examples
Grant Shapps
British Politician
Incentives and infrastructure should encourage development and that development needs to contain the right types of housing in the right places.
Quote examples
Eric Maskin
American Economist
A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.
Quote examples
Herbert Hoover
American President
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Quote examples
Hosea Ballou
American Clergyman
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
Quote examples
Joshua Kimmich
German Footballer
Praise is great, but it's also an incentive.
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