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3 Awesome Open Innovation Challenges for Better Health

Dec-29-14 By IdeaConnection
Need a medical innovation, a better way to treat patients or new approaches to improve health and well-being? The crowd may just have the solution that you are looking for.

The medical and healthcare industries are no strangers to open innovation and putting the brain power of the public to good use. After all, we all have vested interests in the outcomes.  Here are three open innovation challenges that have yielded breakthrough innovations:

Superfast Hyperloop within 10 Years?

Dec-22-14 By IdeaConnection
In 2013, a preliminary design for the futuristic Hyperloop high speed train concept was made public.  If it gets off the ground, it will shave hours off journey times, ease congestion and cut pollution levels.  Now, a group of engineers from Boeing, NASA and SpaceX want to make it a reality and they say they can do it within 10 years.  They were brought together by crowd collaboration platform JumpStartFund.

The Hyperloop transport system was envisioned by entrepreneur and business magnate Elon Musk and features a network of above-ground tubes that can send passengers from LA to San Francisco in 30 minutes at a speed of 800 miles per hour.  This is approximately twice the cruising speed of some passenger planes. 

Christmas Reads for Innovators, Creative Thinkers and Science Fans

Dec-15-14 By IdeaConnection
Stuck for a present to buy the inventive genius in your life this festive season?  Whether that bright, creative spark is you or a friend or family member, here are some fantastic holiday reads to stimulate the old grey cells even more.

How You Can Help Find a Cure for Ebola

Dec-08-14 By IdeaConnection
The Ebola outbreak may be fading from the headlines, but it is still a huge problem that is claiming thousands of lives.  To help speed up the development of a definitive cure for the devastating disease, the Scripps Research Institute is enlisting members of the crowd to use their computer downtime to carry out critical research.

Erica Ollmann Saphire, a Professor at Scripps, said: "We have the information in my lab that will tell us how to fight it . But we need computational power to calculate which drugs will best fit in the targets that we find."

Countdown to the Inaugural World Open Innovation Conference

Dec-01-14 By IdeaConnection
Have you got your tickets?  This week sees the very first  World Open Innovation Conference.  Leading industry and academic figures will gather in Napa Valley, California on December 4-5 for two days of research, lectures, presentations and brainstorming, designed to forge stronger links between business practice and academia.