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TV Show to Shine the Spotlight on Open Innovation

Feb-23-12 By IdeaConnection
Open innovation is to get a massive public platform in the UK with a crowdsourcing initiative to support a major five-part TV documentary.

In the series, an average family home will be transformed into the home of the future with futuristic appliances and gadgets. At the same time an online community with thousands of contributors will submit ideas for new products and services to enhance home life.

Open Innovation Date for Your Diary

Feb-20-12 By IdeaConnection
Here’s a date to put a ring round on your calendar. June 13th -14 2012 is when the 2nd Annual Open Innovation Conference will take place, in conjunction with INPEX, America’s largest invention trade show.

The event is being held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and will bring together key open innovation practitioners from numerous industries for two days of inspirational and highly informative and practical talks, sessions and debates. They will address all facets of the innovation-to-market cycle.

How the Crowd Can Save You Money on Flights

Feb-19-12 By IdeaConnection
The Internet may well have made many of our lives easier, but sometimes it’s a little too packed with information, making searches cumbersome and time consuming.

Take cheap flights for example. There’s an ocean of virtual travel sites all promising to deliver bargain basement prices, but most rely on search engines to deliver their results.

Australian website Flightfox.com on the other hand taps into the crowd instead, and it claims to save travellers an average of $AUD 371 on their trips.

The White House Releases an Open Innovator’s Toolkit

Feb-16-12 By IdeaConnection
On the last day of his tenure as Federal Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra used the occasion to unveil an open innovator's toolkit. It's a highly informative, practical and supremely useful collection of open innovation guides, techniques and case studies.

It also presents a list of 20 leading practices to help spur innovation across the public sector in local, state and federal governments. These are drawn from his experience with the projects he contributed to during his two years in office.

Open Innovation to Tackle Health Problems in Thailand

Feb-12-12 By IdeaConnection
To mark its 60th anniversary in Thailand, Royal Philips Electronics is embarking on a crowdsourcing initiative to develop innovative ideas to modern health problems that the country faces.

The company has created the ‘+’ Project to receive proposals on how best to improve the health and quality of life of Thai people.

White House Recognition for Scientists Without Borders

Feb-09-12 By IdeaConnection
It’s congratulations to Scientists Without Borders for the recognition it received from the White House at a special event on Wednesday.

The web-based collaborative community was acknowledged for its model of generating world-beating innovations to solve long-standing global developmental problems.

Outgoing Chief Technology Officer Talks Open Innovation

Feb-08-12 By IdeaConnection
The outgoing chief technology officer of the United States has given a lengthy interview to The Atlantic, where amongst other topics he talks about the Open Government Initiative, open innovation and the prospects of collaboration to solve the big issues of our time.

Aneesh Chopra is the first American Federal Chief Technology Officer of the United States (CTO) and the post was created by President Obama following a campaign promise.

Congressman Patrick McHenry Talks About His Crowdfunding Bill

Feb-06-12 By IdeaConnection
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.

Mobile Computing Accelerating Innovation and Changing How We Work

Feb-05-12 By IdeaConnection
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.

Study Refutes 3 Major Criticisms of Crowdsourcing

Feb-03-12 By IdeaConnection
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.