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Robot Gives Open Innvoation Drug Discovery a Boost

Jan-27-17 By IdeaConnection
In a bid to speed up the discovery and development of new drugs for cancer, pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is using what it claims is the world's most advanced drug discovery robot to search for new oncology treatments.

And through its open innovation program, AZ will provide its partners with "unprecedented access" to the bot, known as NiCoLA-B.

Open Innovation Task to Save England’s Green Spaces

Jan-20-17 By IdeaConnection
England may well be a green and pleasant land, but some of its parks are under threat.  Faced with budgetary cuts and increasing expenses, some local authorities are selling off green spaces to make ends meet.

Their actions are so worrying campaigners that they’ve launched an open innovation project to find out exactly what’s at risk.

Open Innovation Project to Detect Gravitational Waves

Jan-13-17 By IdeaConnection
Gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of space time that were predicted by Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity.  However, they are so tiny that detecting them has proved to be notoriously difficult.

The first detection of this elusive phenomenon was made around 100 years after Einstein’s work by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).  Now the scientists behind the research are turning to the crowd with an open innovation initiative to help them become better and faster at finding the tell-tale signs of gravitational waves.

AT&T’s Push to Transform Data Sharing

Jan-06-17 By IdeaConnection
Telecommunications giant AT&T is set to launch a new data sharing platform called Network 3.0 Indigo.

It will provide a trusted open innovation environment where organizations can share data and collaborate on analytics, free of the usual constraints that hamper some data-sharing communities, such as privacy, ownership and identity management.