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Posts in December 2016
Simulating the World’s Power Grid with Open Innovation
Dec-29-16 By IdeaConnectionAn open innovation project from Germany is helping energy researchers with numerous endeavors and enterprises.
OpenGridMap is crowdsourcing data related to the world's power grid and making it freely available to others. The aim is to produce realistic input data for simulation studies in several fields, such as simulating the feeding of renewable energy into the grid and modeling its effects.
Obama Receives Recognition for Open Innovation Achievements
Dec-23-16 By IdeaConnectionPresident Barack Obama has been honored with the Award for Outstanding Global leadership in Open Innovation.
This public and well-deserved recognition took place at the recent World Open Innovation Conference in Barcelona, Spain.
How Crowdsourcing Can Help Facebook Fight Fake News
Dec-16-16 By IdeaConnectionIn recent weeks Facebook has come in for huge criticism across the globe after some users complained that fabricated news stories had influenced the US presidential election.
And now the social media giant has responded with a raft of new features to fight the fake news and hoaxes, and it includes enlisting the help of the crowd.
How Europe is Innovating with Open Innovation
Dec-09-16 By IdeaConnectionAccording to research by the Gartner Group, there will be more than 20 billion connected devices in use by the year 2020.
That is a massive multi-billion euro opportunity that could result in breakthrough innovations in all sorts of areas, and it hasn't gone unnoticed in Europe.
What Motivates IdeaConnection’s Open Innovation Solvers?
Dec-02-16 By IdeaConnectionIdeaConnection has a wonderful resource of highly educated, highly creative and whip smart solvers and facilitators. They create breakthrough solutions for a range of companies in different industries.
While the possibility of financial reward is a motivating factor, it is not the only or indeed the main reason why many solvers sign up for challenges. In their own words, here’s a quick insight into what motivates some of our brilliant solvers and facilitators.