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Posts in July 2013
No-Strings Cash Grants for Awesome Ideas
Jul-29-13 By IdeaConnectionThe BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) has just published a short film about the Awesome Foundation, an international network of philanthropists that provides no-strings attached cash to “awesome” ideas and projects.
Christina Xu, the Chancellor of the Institute on Higher Awesome Studies refers to Awesome as "a distributed network of guerrilla philanthropists."
Crowdsourcing Information for Disaster Relief Efforts
Jul-28-13 By IdeaConnectionWatch this illuminating TED talk to discover how crowdsourcing can aid disaster relief efforts. The talk was given by Qatar Foundation's Patrick Meier and concentrates on the role that social media platforms such as Twitter can play in disseminating accurate, real-time information during disaster scenarios.
Rolls Royce Launches Major Open Innovation Program
Jul-27-13 By IdeaConnectionRolls Royce, the aerospace and power systems company has launched an open innovation program in India to find, buy and/or license technologies and techniques outside its usual fields of operation.
The India Open Innovation program (IOiN-RR) will also help Indian companies to leverage their skills, services and talents globally.
Embracing Open Innovation to Boost the Welsh Economy
Jul-26-13 By IdeaConnectionAll eyes are on the government of Wales as it embarks on a brand new open innovation project that aims to forge collaborations between large and small companies and other partners. The overall intention is to increase innovation and give the Welsh economy a healthy boost.
Other towns, cities and countries will be watching to see what difference the project might make.
Open Innovation Survey Among Large Companies: The Results are In
Jul-23-13 By IdeaConnectionIt’s been ten years since Prof. Henry Chesbrough coined the term ‘open innovation’. The paradigm has been oft talked about since, and adoption is on the up. But there hasn’t been a systematic analysis of how large companies are using OI. Until now that is.
The Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft have conducted a large-sample survey of open innovation adoption among large US and European companies.
Crowdsourcing a Medical Instagram
Jul-21-13 By IdeaConnectionSharing photographs is one of the most popular fun social media activities. The tools and technologies that make it possible have also been harnessed for business applications. For example, retailers making use of Pinterest to raise awareness of their products. And now the medical field is benefiting too.
Figure 1 is a photo sharing application that allows healthcare professionals to learn from each other by uploading images of conditions. This will create a unique reference library as well as create discussions around those pictures.
Open Innovation and the Advertising Industry
Jul-18-13 By IdeaConnectionOpen innovation has thrown a lifeline to many companies in numerous industries, helping them to innovate faster and at lower cost thus allowing them to steal a march on their competitors.
One industry that is starting to realize the potential of the crowd is advertising. A current article - ‘Is Open Innovation the Future of Advertising?' - in MediaJobs.com (a digital news platform) looks at the creative changes that traditional advertising agencies need to make to innovate and remain fresh and relevant.
How Open Innovation is Keeping Us Moving
Jul-16-13 By IdeaConnectionTraffic chaos and transit problems are perennial thorns in the sides of urban dwellers and commuters. Untangling congested networks often foxes local authorities, national governments and transport companies which is why a steadily increasing number of organisations is turning to the crowd for solutions.
Here are three crowdsourcing initiatives that are helping people to get from A to B without them tearing their hair out in frustration and losing the will to live.
Microsoft to Crowdsource the Hunt for Security Bugs
Jul-14-13 By IdeaConnectionMicrosoft is turning to the crowd of computer experts, hackers, and coders to find security glitches in its software products, and then to fix those bugs.
And the computer behemoth is offering some big money incentives.
Open Innovation Boost to Earthquake Research
Jul-11-13 By IdeaConnectionOpen innovation, social media and crowdsourcing are making signification contributions to the study of earthquakes according to a new report by the Commons Lab at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Transforming Earthquake Detection and Science Through Citizen Seismology describes how organizations such as The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are tapping into citizen science projects to augment their capabilities.