Open Innovation
SUCCESS STORIES

Open innovation success stories from a broad range of companies, and a diverse range of open innovation intermediaries.

Open Innovation Search for Novel Malaria Solutions

Open Innovation Search for Novel Malaria Solutions

Erada, South Africa
Malaria is a life-threatening mosquito-borne infectious disease. According to the World Health Organization, there were an estimated 228 million cases of malaria worldwide in 2018. African regions are...
Open Innovation Call For Radical Ideas in Packaging

Open Innovation Call For Radical Ideas in Packaging

Perrier, France
The innovation climate has been changing in recent years, with ever greater numbers of companies engaging with open innovation initiatives. This is primarily due to the realization of the benefits of
Big Data Solutions to Improve Fusion Reaction Simulations

Big Data Solutions to Improve Fusion Reaction Simulations

Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics and the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility, Germany
The lofty promise of nuclear fusion is limitless energy with hardly any waste at all. To some, this is the holy grail of energy, a proposed form of power generation that creates electricity by using t...
Open Innovation Search for Novel Healthcare Solutions

Open Innovation Search for Novel Healthcare Solutions

by Boston Children's Hospital/Klick Health, United States
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a term that applies to Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, both of which are characterized by chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Although
Groundbreaking Healthcare Technology Receives Open Innovation Boost

Groundbreaking Healthcare Technology Receives Open Innovation Boost

Binah.ai, Israel
When the Japanese multinational system integration company NTT Data wants breakthrough concepts, it turns to the crowd, not only to catalyze smart and creative thinking but also to help new businesses...
Open Innovation Search for Water Quality Solutions

Open Innovation Search for Water Quality Solutions

Capgemini, India
Any problem, no matter how big or pressing, can benefit from open innovation, bringing diverse people together from a broad range of disciplines. One of today's pressing global issues is declining
Open Innovation Challenge Encourages A Rethink of the Way Buildings are Constructed

Open Innovation Challenge Encourages A Rethink of the Way Buildings are Constructed

LafargeHolcim, Switzerland
Global carbon dioxide emissions will increase by 43% by 2035 if major nations continue a business-as-usual approach, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Carbon emissions associat...
Open Innovation Challenge Gives Student Rocketry Teams a Boost

Open Innovation Challenge Gives Student Rocketry Teams a Boost

Spaceport America, United States
Spaceport America in New Mexico is the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport, a launch site for sending tourists into space. The futuristic transport hub is also the location of the Spacepo...
Drone Racing Spurs Autonomous Flight Innovations

Drone Racing Spurs Autonomous Flight Innovations

Team MAVLAB, Netherlands
AlphaPilot lays claim to being the world's first large-scale open innovation challenge focused on developing artificial intelligence for high-speed racing drones. The contest took place in 2019. T...
How Big Data is Transforming the Tourism Industry

How Big Data is Transforming the Tourism Industry

Department of Culture and Tourism, United Arab Emirates
Tourism is just one of many industries leveraging big data and big data analytics, taking advantage of the available and exponential growth of digital information. From travel agents and hotels to air...
Hold the Front Page! The Rise of Robot Journalists

Hold the Front Page! The Rise of Robot Journalists

British Broadcasting Corporation, United Kingdom
During the UK General Election of November 2019, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) embarked on a massive experiment with machine-generated journalism. An AI-driven autoscribe system churned o...
Improving Aircraft Engine Maintenance with Blockchain Technology

Improving Aircraft Engine Maintenance with Blockchain Technology

Block Aero Technologies, Hong Kong
Rolls Royce currently supplies its cutting-edge aircraft engines to more than 400 airlines across the world. They can be found on some of the most popular commercial aircrafts such as the Boeing 787.
Tackling Malaria Drug Resistance with Open Innovation

Tackling Malaria Drug Resistance with Open Innovation

Dream Challenges
Malaria is still one of the planet's biggest killers, a mosquito-borne parasitic disease that is endemic in many parts of the developing world. According to the latest figures from the World Health Or...
Breakthrough Internet of Things Technology Wins 2019 Nokia Open Innovation Challenge

Breakthrough Internet of Things Technology Wins 2019 Nokia Open Innovation Challenge

HaiLa, Canada
The arrival of 5G is ushering in what many people are calling the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The next generation of mobile connectivity promises to be an enormous leap in the world of technolog...
Open Innovation Contest to Discover New Uses For a Revolutionary Material

Open Innovation Contest to Discover New Uses For a Revolutionary Material

Liquid Indentity, United Kingdom
Graphene is the new wonder material, a carbon sheet that is one atom thick but 200 times stronger than steel. It stretches, twists, rolls and is the lightest, most conductive manmade material on Earth...
How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Save the Lives of Firefighters

How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Save the Lives of Firefighters

Prometeo, Spain
During the summer of 2019 firefighters in Spain battled the worst fires the country had seen for 20 years. From north to south emergency services were out in force to tackle the flames. Spain, like ot...
How Robots and AI are Making an Entrée Into the Restaurant Industry

How Robots and AI are Making an Entrée Into the Restaurant Industry

Various, United States
They may not have the creativity of Marco Pierre White, the originality of Heston Blumenthal or the cuss words and flair of Gordon Ramsay, but robots are making tracks in the restaurant industry.
How Big Data is Changing Commercial and Business Aviation

How Big Data is Changing Commercial and Business Aviation

Bombardier Inc., Germany
Big data is reshaping business, helping companies to grow and operate more efficiently. One area where its many impacts and benefits are being felt and enjoyed is in aviation. There are numerous e...
Construction Giant Engages with Open Innovation to Innovative Start-Up Partners

Construction Giant Engages with Open Innovation to Innovative Start-Up Partners

Goodbag, Austria
To encourage innovation in the construction sector and to create profitable partnerships with other companies, Spanish multinational construction company Ferrovial hosts Build Up! This annual open inn...
Open Innovation Drives Novel Ideas to Solve Congestion in Vancouver

Open Innovation Drives Novel Ideas to Solve Congestion in Vancouver

Team Safeway, Canada
Vancouver, Canada has its fair share of traffic collisions and fatalities, like any major city in the world. They are the second-highest cause of serious injuries arriving at the coastal seaport's hos...
Open Innovation Detective Work to Find Missing Persons

Open Innovation Detective Work to Find Missing Persons

Hackathon team, Australia
In a first-of-its-kind event in Australia, police turn to the crowd for help in finding missing people. While the traditional 'missing person' poster campaigns have met with some success, there are cu...
Open Innovation Search For Respiratory Protection

Open Innovation Search For Respiratory Protection

Air99, United States
A virulent strain of an airborne virus could spread to all major capitals within 60 days and kill more than 33 million people within 250 days, according to a 2016 report by the United Nations. It was
Simplifying Bank Processes with Artificial Intelligence

Simplifying Bank Processes with Artificial Intelligence

La Caixa, Spain
Artificial intelligence is a fast-moving technology that is being adopted by numerous industries, making some of their processes better and smarter day by day. One of the leading adopters of AI is...
Groundbreaking Ideas From Hulu’s Open Innovation Hackathon

Groundbreaking Ideas From Hulu’s Open Innovation Hackathon

Hulu, United States
Hulu is a U.S.-based subscription video on demand service that is part of a very competitive media landscape with companies constantly innovating to get more viewers to watch their programs. One o...
Providing Better Dermatology Services with Open Innovation

Providing Better Dermatology Services with Open Innovation

SkinSpecs, United States
There is a multitude of healthcare problems that can benefit from fresh and interdisciplinary thinking. One tried and tested way of accelerating the solving of these issues is through hackathons, open...
Predicting Sepsis Risk with AI Algorithm

Predicting Sepsis Risk with AI Algorithm

Geisinger Health System, United States
Sepsis is a serious and potentially life-threatening reaction to an infection in the body. It is also called septicemia or blood poisoning and happens when the immune system overacts to an infection a...
Open Innovation Hackathon Results in an App to Cut Parking Fines

Open Innovation Hackathon Results in an App to Cut Parking Fines

Can-I-Park, Australia
Confusing parking signs can leave people out of pocket with fines. Unable to decipher them and unaware of a locale’s parking restrictions they unintentionally park illegally incurring fines that cou...
Boeing Seeks Fresh Thinking with Open Innovation

Boeing Seeks Fresh Thinking with Open Innovation

Boeing Corporation, United States
An ever-increasing number of companies are coming to the realization that it doesn’t matter how great their R&D departments or how creative and innovative their workforce, there are huge benefits in...
Open Innovation for Faster Fighter Jet Upgrades

Open Innovation for Faster Fighter Jet Upgrades

Lockheed Martin, United States
Lockheed Martin's F-22 Raptor, a single-seat, fifth-generation twin-engine stealth tactical aircraft is one of the world's most advanced and fastest fighter jets. However, concerns that processes gove...
Big Ideas at Hackathon for Workplace Improvements

Big Ideas at Hackathon for Workplace Improvements

Scrantonicity, United States
The CreatorCon Hackathon is an annual open innovation event at the Knowledge Conference where innovators discuss issues and innovations around delivering modern digital workflows. The hackathon inv...
Big Data for Accurate Predictions of Electricity Grid Flow

Big Data for Accurate Predictions of Electricity Grid Flow

Professor José Vilar, Spain
One of the challenges of delivering electricity through the grid nowadays is that it is no longer produced by a handful of stable plants. Instead, it comes from millions of dispersed and unpredictable...
Machine Learning to Better Predict Earthquakes

Machine Learning to Better Predict Earthquakes

The Zoo Team, Austria
Earthquake prediction deals with specifying the time, location and magnitude of future earthquakes. This is an immature branch of science and while it is possible to identify areas where earthquakes a...
Boosting Innovation with Open Innovation Accelerators

Boosting Innovation with Open Innovation Accelerators

Mars Food, United States
In an interview with Just Food in April 2019, Clarence Mak, the chief innovation officer for Mars Food acknowledged there were a lot of areas that the global manufacturer of confectionery, food produc...
Open Innovation Solutions for Public Transportation Issues

Open Innovation Solutions for Public Transportation Issues

Youth for Public Transport, Belgium
Bursting with enthusiasm, ideas and creativity, 13 teams of young innovators, aged from 16 to 37 turned up to the final of the Y4PT (Youth for Public Transport) Global Transport Hackathon in Stockholm...
Arm Rehabilitation Device for Stroke Victims Wins Open Innovation Competition

Arm Rehabilitation Device for Stroke Victims Wins Open Innovation Competition

BeAble Health, India
Every year there are 1.8 million incidences of stroke in India. The medical condition is the number one cause of disability in the country. To improve outcomes for stroke and motor rehabilitation vict...
Big Data Solutions for the Social Good in Taiwan

Big Data Solutions for the Social Good in Taiwan

The Government of Taiwan, Taiwan
To uncover new ways to tackle social challenges and advance sustainable development in Taiwan, the Taiwanese government hosts the Presidential Hackathon. During this open innovation initiative, partic...
Chemical Giants Discovers Novel Battery Technology Ideas with Open Innovation

Chemical Giants Discovers Novel Battery Technology Ideas with Open Innovation

LG Chem, South Korea
South Korean chemical company LG Chem has been actively pursuing an open innovation strategy in recent years, reaching out to start-ups and innovators across the world for new technologies to help kee...
How a Multimillion-Dollar Business Grew Out of a Hackathon

How a Multimillion-Dollar Business Grew Out of a Hackathon

GroupMe, United States
As a melting pot of brilliant and creative ideas, hackathons are open innovation events that solve problems, improve products, generate new ones and can lead to the development of multimillion dollar-...
Leveraging Big Data for Mineral Exploration

Leveraging Big Data for Mineral Exploration

OZ Minerals, Australia
Among the many advantages of open innovation is that you can bring together a lot of very smart people to work on a problem for you, potentially hastening the arrival of a solution. When mining co...
Open Innovation XPRIZE For Seafloor Mapping

Open Innovation XPRIZE For Seafloor Mapping

XPRIZE Foundation, United States
The oceans cover approximately 71 percent of the Earth's surface and contain around 97% of the planet's water. Yet for all its ubiquity most of it remains unexplored, undiscovered and unmapped. There
Improving Air Quality and Tackling Climate Change with Open Innovation

Improving Air Quality and Tackling Climate Change with Open Innovation

Air Liquide, France
To advance scientific research and to support its own growth French multinational company Air Liquide leverages both internal communities and external innovation ecosystems - “collective intelligen...
Artificial Intelligence for Wildlife Conservation

Artificial Intelligence for Wildlife Conservation

University of Southern California, United States
With climate change, deforestation and poaching, conversation efforts are vital to protect our planet’s flora and fauna. The illegal wildlife trade is now the fourth most lucrative transnational cri...
The Importance of Open Innovation Contests to the US Government

The Importance of Open Innovation Contests to the US Government

Federal agencies, US Government, United States
During recent years the US government has been increasingly turning to open innovation contests to help discover new ideas and technologies. Dozens of federal agencies up and down the land have worked...
Solving Challenges with Internal Hackathons

Solving Challenges with Internal Hackathons

Siemens Wind Power, Germany
“In only 48 hours, we have achieved the same as we would normally do in 2 years”. That was the conclusion of the jury of the Siemens Wind Power: Engineering Hackathon. This was an internal open i...
Using Artificial Intelligence to Find Missing Persons

Using Artificial Intelligence to Find Missing Persons

Amazon Web Services, United States
In 2018 Amazon Web Service (AWS) launched its 2018 AWS AI Hackathon, an open innovation contest that challenged participants to build intelligent apps using pre-trained machine learning computer visio...
Improving Melbourne’s Accessibility with Open Innovation

Improving Melbourne’s Accessibility with Open Innovation

The City of Melbourne, Australia
Almost one in five people in Australia experience some form of disability, which can make moving around cities difficult and problematic. So, to stimulate new ideas and solutions to make Melbourne mor...
A Big Data Approach to Tackling the Opioid Crisis

A Big Data Approach to Tackling the Opioid Crisis

DataStax and Deloitte, United States
The United States is in the midst of an opioid epidemic that claims the lives of more than 130 people each day. It began in the 1990s, with the over-prescription of opioids to treat all sorts of pain
Crowdsourcing Challenge to Better Locate Objects on the International Space Station

Crowdsourcing Challenge to Better Locate Objects on the International Space Station

NASA, United States
You'd think it would be relatively easy to locate items on the International Space Station (ISS), a closed environment with just a handful of individuals present. However, keeping track of objects in
Big Data Solutions to Prevent Homelessness

Big Data Solutions to Prevent Homelessness

Built for Zero, United States
Homelessness is a blight on the lives of those who have no roof over their head and a huge problem for society to contend with. It is a hugely complex issue, but one that is possible to solve. One sol...
Using Big Data to Improve Video Game Experiences

Using Big Data to Improve Video Game Experiences

InData Labs, United States
The intention of video game makers is to create something that is fun to play. A lot of hard work, ingenuity and financial investment goes into making them interesting for players, but success is not
Solving Societal Challenges with Open Innovation

Solving Societal Challenges with Open Innovation

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, United States
One of the many advantages of open innovation is that it can bring creative minds together from diverse backgrounds to solve problems for the common good. From tackling the spread of diseases and prov...
Open Innovation Gives the Aerospace Industry a Lift

Open Innovation Gives the Aerospace Industry a Lift

AirAsia/Ministry of Education, Malaysia
Organizations within the aerospace industry are increasingly challenging the professional community and the general public to solve technical challenges, dream up new customer experiences and improve
Big Data Approaches to Improve the Accuracy of Political Predictions

Big Data Approaches to Improve the Accuracy of Political Predictions

Gold Coast University, Australia
When it comes to local, regional and national election campaigns a lot of debates take place online with voters turning to Twitter, Facebook and other social media channels to air their views and atte...
Global AI and Blockchain Hackathon to Solve Societal Challenges

Global AI and Blockchain Hackathon to Solve Societal Challenges

DutchChain, Netherlands
One of the many advantages of hosting a problem-solving hackathon is that the limited 24 or 48-hour timeframes mean there is a laser-like focus on coming up with breakthrough solutions – an intensit...
Big Data Boost for Restaurants

Big Data Boost for Restaurants

Cava, United States
The restaurant industry like many others is looking at ways of how to leverage the wealth of big data at their fingertips. A survey conducted by The National Restaurant Association in the US revealed
Crowdsourcing Geospatial Innovations for Better Public Services

Crowdsourcing Geospatial Innovations for Better Public Services

Geospatial Commission/Innovate UK, United Kingdom
In August 2018 the UK's Cabinet Office published a report on the economic opportunities presented by geospatial data (also known as spatial data). This is information that identifies the geographic lo...
Artificial Intelligence Gives Petrol Pump Safety a Boost

Artificial Intelligence Gives Petrol Pump Safety a Boost

Neuroplex/Shell, India
With large quantities of flammable fuel, petrol filling stations are particularly hazardous places to be around. Minor mistakes and carelessness can have potentially disastrous consequences. Enhan...
Improving Patient Monitoring with AI and Big Data

Improving Patient Monitoring with AI and Big Data

National Health Service, United Kingdom
From helping to improve antibiotic resistance to turning electronic health records into reliable risk predictors, artificial intelligence and big data are set to revolutionize patient care in so many
How Big Data and Analytics are Transforming Elite Basketball

How Big Data and Analytics are Transforming Elite Basketball

Second Spectrum, United States
During the last decade, big data has made big, impactful strides into basketball helping to improve individual and team performances as well as the way new players are recruited. The overwhelming majo...
Big Data and the Future of Firefighting

Big Data and the Future of Firefighting

New York City Fire Department, United States
Nobody knows where or when the next fire is going to break out, but big data analytics is helping to predict risk and detect locations where a fire is most likely to occur. Predicting Risk New
Earlier Breast Cancer Detection with Artificial Intelligence

Earlier Breast Cancer Detection with Artificial Intelligence

Niramai, India
Breast cancer is the cause of the greatest number of cancer-related deaths among women. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 627,000 women died from breast cancer in 2018, a...
Open Innovation Drives Subway Menu Innovation

Open Innovation Drives Subway Menu Innovation

Subway/Tastemade, United States
Subway is one of the world's largest restaurant chains with more than 44,000 franchises operating in more than 100 countries. Although successful, an oft-made criticism of the brand is that it lacks m...
Space Technologies Hackathon Yields Autism App

Space Technologies Hackathon Yields Autism App

The University of Padua, Italy
In 2018 the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GNSS) hosted its second successive Space For Your App hackathon, an open innovation contest for developers, coders, data scientists and...
Big Data for Better and More Accurate Diagnosis in Healthcare

Big Data for Better and More Accurate Diagnosis in Healthcare

Seattle Children’s Hospital, United States
Big data is making a big impact in healthcare, helping to improve diagnosis, reduce costs of treatment, improve quality of life, predict epidemic outbreaks and more. Health professionals like those i...
 The Rise of AI-Powered Chatbots in the Healthcare Industry

The Rise of AI-Powered Chatbots in the Healthcare Industry

of David Hawig, Germany
Chatbots are commonplace in ecommerce settings, providing convenient ways to improve the customer experience. At one time or another many of us have conversed with a bot to complain about a missing or...
Counterfeit Medicine Detection Using Artificial Intelligence

Counterfeit Medicine Detection Using Artificial Intelligence

RxAll, Nigeria
Open innovation competitions provide valuable opportunities for start-ups to create awareness of their ideas, perfect their sales pitches, network with investors and other parties, win prize money and...
An Innovative Method to Continuously Power IoT Devices

An Innovative Method to Continuously Power IoT Devices

NOWI B.V., Netherlands
The IoT Innovation World Cup is a global open innovation competition for IoT (Internet of Things) and wearable tech start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs. The purpose is to discover and bring to the fore pote...
Using Open Innovation to Discover Innovations and New Businesses

Using Open Innovation to Discover Innovations and New Businesses

NTT Data Corporation, Japan
One of the ways global IT services provider NTT Data Corporation of Japan searches for new partners and businesses is with its annual open innovation contest which it has been hosting twice a year sin...
 Tackling Agriculture, Water and Cybersecurity Issues with Open Innovation

Tackling Agriculture, Water and Cybersecurity Issues with Open Innovation

The State of Andhra Pradesh, India
Andhra Pradesh, a state bordering India's southeastern coast has embarked on a number of open innovation initiatives during recent years. In 2016, it opened its first-ever open innovation center which...
Open Innovation Solution to Help Women Find Careers in the Tech Industry

Open Innovation Solution to Help Women Find Careers in the Tech Industry

Women in Tech World, Canada
Open innovation events are not only cost-effective ways to source new products they can also be a means of soliciting fresh and breakthrough thinking for a problem. In a 2018 hackathon in Vancouver, C...
Crowdsourcing the Oxford English Dictionary

Crowdsourcing the Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford University Press, United Kingdom
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language dealing with the meanings of present-day words and the historical development of their forms and mean...
Open Innovation Solutions to Combat Opioid Addiction

Open Innovation Solutions to Combat Opioid Addiction

The University of California’s Institute for Prediction Technology, United States
Opioid addiction is a serious public health problem in many countries. It is a chronic and long-lasting disease that can cause major health, social and economic problems. Opioids are a class of drug...
Big Data and Formula 1 Success

Big Data and Formula 1 Success

Formula One, United States
Aside from the speed, the technology-driven machines and fearless drivers, Formula 1 is a competitive sport where big data matters. Today's Formula 1 cars are not only mean machines that can travel at...
Hyperloop Competition Winner Breaks Speed Record

Hyperloop Competition Winner Breaks Speed Record

SpaceX, United States
Hyperloop technologies could revolutionize the way we travel in the future. Currently, numerous companies around the world are looking into this form of super-fast ground transport. The idea is that c...
Algorithms to Speed Up Drug Development

Algorithms to Speed Up Drug Development

Booz Allen/Kaggle, United States
Big data is not just a powerful and transformative tool for businesses. Information resulting from the analysis of zeroes and ones can deliver new solutions or provide new ways of understanding a vas...
Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Safer Flying

Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Safer Flying

Airbus, Netherlands
One of the biggest causes of airplane disasters is faulty or overlooked maintenance. While flying is statistically the safest form of travel the industry is always looking at new ways to make it even
 Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Natural Disasters

Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Natural Disasters

The Government of Singapore, Singapore
Brilliant ideas can come from anywhere, anyone and at any time. One of the reasons why hackathons are so successful is that many ideas often don’t see the light of idea. But bring a lot of bright an...
Open Air Solutions for India’s Pollution Problem

Open Air Solutions for India’s Pollution Problem

The Collaborative Clean Air Policy Center, India
India has some of the highest pollution levels in the world. A study published in the Lancet estimated that in 2017 air pollution killed more than one million Indians. In a World Health Organization
Open Innovation Solution Creates Water Out of Thin Air

Open Innovation Solution Creates Water Out of Thin Air

XPRIZE Foundation, United States
There is nothing more essential to life than clean water. Yet across the planet hundreds of millions of people are struggling to access the good-quality water they need for drinking, cooking, bathing
Improved Algorithm for Home Valuations

Improved Algorithm for Home Valuations

Zillow Group, United States
Zillow is an online real estate database that has an algorithm called a Zestimate that predicts the estimated market value of a home. It is automatically computed daily with public and user-submitted
Big Data and Machine Learning Solutions to Improve Agriculture

Big Data and Machine Learning Solutions to Improve Agriculture

CGIAR, France
From using sophisticated algorithms to make accurate crop predictions to helping farmers speed up plant growth big data is making a huge impact in agriculture across the globe. Advances in computer p...
Open Innovation for Rapid Product Development

Open Innovation for Rapid Product Development

Product Hunt, United States
So, you want game-changing innovations with the potential to radically improve your company/industry. Who are you gonna call? How about the crowd, a diverse group from all corners with vastly differe...
Open Innovation Uncovers Innovations in Law

Open Innovation Uncovers Innovations in Law

Global Legal Hackahton, United States
Open innovation is a concept that is benefiting companies in multiple industries such as automotive, aerospace, healthcare, mining, energy, construction and consumer products. Using external sources o...
How Big Data Can Help Flood Responses in India

How Big Data Can Help Flood Responses in India

Google/Central Water Commission, India
Forecasting the weather is a challenging exercise and not always accurate, given the chaotic and unpredictable nature of weather patterns, the sheer volume of variables and the complex interactions be...
Open Innovation Challenge Yields a New Way to Diagnose Pain Intensity

Open Innovation Challenge Yields a New Way to Diagnose Pain Intensity

Cornell University, United States
The sensation of pain involves a complex set of signals between the nerves, spinal cord and brain. And we all feel it differently. Whether pain is chronic, piercing, throbbing or aching it is difficul...
Free-Flying Space Station Robot Gets Open Innovation Help

Free-Flying Space Station Robot Gets Open Innovation Help

NASA, United States
When NASA wants out-of-the-box thinking for its manned and robotic missions it regularly turns to open innovation to attract expertise from far and wide. The space agency harnesses the expertise, inge...
How Big Data Can Reduce Football Injuries

How Big Data Can Reduce Football Injuries

Sparta Science, United States
Injuries are a huge problem in American football. A player injury is not only bad news for the individual, but it can also threaten a team's prospects during a season. For example, in 2018 Jimmy Garop...
Big Data Boost to US Barbecue Restaurant Chain

Big Data Boost to US Barbecue Restaurant Chain

Dickey's Barbecue Pit, United States
Dickey's Barbecue Pit is a network of hundreds of barbecue restaurants across the USA serving slow-cooked barbecue offerings. Aware of the importance of mining and leveraging big data it adopted a sto...
Preventing Car Crashes with Big Data Analysis

Preventing Car Crashes with Big Data Analysis

US State of Tennesse, United States
The figures are truly staggering. According to research conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) 1.35 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes and road traffic injurie...
Making Archeological Discoveries with Open Innovation

Making Archeological Discoveries with Open Innovation

GlobalXplorer, United States
Professor Sarah Parcak is a space archeologist and a National Geographic fellow who uses satellite imagery to probe the Earth, analyzing pictures to identify small changes that could signal hidden hum...
Open Innovation Initiatives at Abbey Road Studios

Open Innovation Initiatives at Abbey Road Studios

Abbey Road Red, United Kingdom
The Beatles, Abba, Burt Bacharach, Amy Winehouse and Ed Sheeran are just a handful of the legendary music stars who have recorded in London's Abbey Road. These famous studios have not only been at th...
Harnessing the Power of Open Innovation for the Common Good

Harnessing the Power of Open Innovation for the Common Good

The Hague, Netherlands
Open innovation is an important tool for solving big problems. One of the oft-used approaches is the hackathon model where brilliant minds from diverse backgrounds work for a concentrated period of ti...
Big Data Boost for Vehicle Rental Company

Big Data Boost for Vehicle Rental Company

Avis Budget Group, United States
In this information age data is a valuable commodity that can help companies grow, make better decisions and improve the way they serve their customers. Leading vehicle renting services company Avis
Open Innovation Solution for Plastic Waste Problem

Open Innovation Solution for Plastic Waste Problem

Unilever, United Kingdom
All over the world people are generating colossal volumes of plastic trash that ends up littering our oceans, cities and waterways. According to a 2017 study, since the 1950s, 8.3 billion tons of pla...
Open Data Innovation to Monitor the Health of Trees

Open Data Innovation to Monitor the Health of Trees

The City of Waterloo, Canada
A civic hackathon is an open innovation concept that has been gaining a lot of traction in recent years. Cities all over the world are sharing data so that developers and other interested parties can
Solving Bangalore's Environmental Problems with Open Innovation

Solving Bangalore's Environmental Problems with Open Innovation

Urban Development Department of the Government of Karnataka, India
Bengaluru (also called Bangalore) is the capital of India's southern Karnataka state and one of the country's most successful cities, a modern metropolis that is India's high-tech industry hub. Howeve...
Open Innovation Delivers Bot Technology Solution for Business

Open Innovation Delivers Bot Technology Solution for Business

Hermyz, United States
For small businesses the job of keeping the books up to date and tracking payments can be onerous and a huge time drag. Time spent on paperwork could be time spent on running other parts of their busi...
P&G Get Their Teeth into Open Innovation with Whitening Product

P&G Get Their Teeth into Open Innovation with Whitening Product

Procter and Gamble, United States
Procter & Gamble engages with numerous open innovation tools and approaches to support innovation, following a goal set by the CEO of the company to produce at least 50% of its innovations from extern...
Open Innovation Solution for Container Ship Challenges

Open Innovation Solution for Container Ship Challenges

Antwerp Port Authority, Belgium
A big cause of concern for the container shipping industry is there is no accurate way to predict the estimated time of arrival (ETA) of container ships. Among the reasons why are ETAs not being upda...
Big Data Can Transform the Travel Industry

Big Data Can Transform the Travel Industry

Dublin Airport, Ireland
Big data is everywhere, a powerful tool that is one of today's most promising new technologies. It can lead to substantial breakthroughs, helping businesses and all manner of organizations to accompli...

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