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Open Innovation Contests Drive Breakthroughs

Mar-31-17 By IdeaConnection
Whether it's coming up with novel ways that allow astronauts to poop safely in space, inventing life-saving medical devices or finding solutions to such complex problems as global warming, open innovation contests are powerful catalysts for groundbreaking advances.

We feature many on the IdeaConnection website, brilliant examples of creativity, ingenuity and what happens when great minds work toward a common goal.  Here is just a little flavor of three of them.

Solving Litter Problems with Open Innovation and the Crowd

Mar-24-17 By IdeaConnection
Litter is a massive problem that negatively affects health and safety, wildlife and the environment.

In an effort to inspire new cleanup solutions, a free open innovation app call Litterati is encouraging the global community to identify, map and collect the world's garbage.

Can Open Innovation Fathom the Mystery of Disappearing Sea Lions?

Mar-17-17 By IdeaConnection
Every year, biologists visit the US state of Alaska to count the number of Steller sea lions (also known as northern sea lions). They also study images of the mammals. For the last 40 years the population has been in decline, but the reasons for the worrying trend are unknown.

To try and get to the bottom of the mystery, an open innovation project called Steller Watch has been launched.

How Open Innovation Could Save the Great Barrier Reef

Mar-10-17 By IdeaConnection
Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven wonders of the natural world, a gathering of vivid coral that stretches for approximately 2,600 kilometers. Its maze of individual reef systems, tropical islands and coral cays provides a home for hundreds of different types of marine plants and animals.

But it is under threat from climate change, declining water quality and a variety of other challenges. To help halt the decline and safeguard the reef's future, conservationists are turning to open innovation.

Open Innovation Inspires TV Drama

Mar-03-17 By IdeaConnection
Open innovation looks set to establish itself further into the public consciousness if a new television series gets off the ground.

It has been announced that actor Jeremy Piven has been cast in the lead role of a new drama pilot from CBS called Wisdom of the Crowd.