Innovation, Inventions and Crowdsourcing
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Open innovation gurus Henry Chesbrough and Wim Vanhaverbeke have released a report that provides fresh insights on open innovation and public policies in Europe.
It was commissioned by the Science Business Innovation Board, and was presented at the European Commission’s Innovation Convention in December.
A long time ago in a galaxy not too far from here a movie called Star Wars first hit the cinema screens and changed Hollywood forever.
Since those heady days of the late 1970s there have been countless versions, digital updates and special editions of all six Star Wars movies that have kept the franchise alive.
But the Empire has seen nothing like the latest incarnation, a recently released crowdsourced version that has taken the Internet by storm.
When Wikipedia closed down its sites for 24 hours in protest against US piracy laws, it left millions of people without access to their favourite online encyclopedia.
However, help was at hand as the crowd rushed in to fill the information void. The Washington Post in collaboration with other media organizations including NPR and the UK’s Guardian newspaper provided an imaginative one-day crowdsourcing solution to help those seeking answers to questions.