"competitive project" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a project that entails competing with others in a certain task or activity. For example, "The students were working hard on their competitive project to win the science fair."
Amazon concludes its proposal by stressing that this a "competitive project". So let the competition among cities begin!
However, there is growing concern that the competitive project funding system favors relatively safe, conventional projects at the expense of risky, novel research.
The findings suggest that the competitive project selection procedure is less receptive to novel ideas from researchers with low academic status and therefore discourages their novel research.
In contrast, compared to internal block funding, competitive project funding has a negative relation to novelty for low status scientists (especially junior and female researchers).
In many countries the scientific funding system is shifting from an internal block funding model toward a competitive project funding model.
As it turns out, the lab was in a scientific race on a very competitive project, and she was hardly a teenage bottle-washer.
Unless donors develop a coherent strategy (rather than competitive, project-related salary supplementation) to deal with this situation, the record of technical assistance in developing capacity will continue to be disappointing, and an escape from aid dependence will be postponed.
The results of the presented projects are compared with recently published competitive projects.
That committee can have half a dozen or more people on it — and those people may have to check with others at the firm who are working on competitive projects.
But it's being pursued by a sufficiently dynamic system of competitive projects that a basic measure such as instructions per second per constant dollar follows a very smooth exponential path going back to the 1890 American census.
Total number of available competitive projects.
