Innovation, Inventions and Crowdsourcing
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On 23rd January 2012 Soho Loft sponsored a special crowdfunding conference in New York City.
The keynote address was given by Congressman Patrick McHenry, the U.S. Representative for North Carolina’s 10th congressional district and author of the Crowdfunding Bill H.R. 2930, otherwise known as The Entrepreneurial Access to Capital Act, HR 2930.
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Throughout February the BBC is interviewing key innovation experts as part of its Future of Work series. Recently, the corporation spoke to Google’s Sebastien Marotte about mobile technologies and how they will shape innovation and the workplace.
He is responsible for developing business strategy and identifying new growth opportunities for Google Enterprise in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and believes that practices such as social networking and the use of cloud computing will radically accelerate the speed with which ideas are developed and brought to fruition.
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Crowdsourcing comes in for its fair share of criticism as not everyone is sold on its numerous benefits.
But a new study by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University refutes three of the biggest criticisms levelled against this form of open innovation.