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Eradicating Invasive Mussels via Open Innovation

Eradicating Invasive Mussels via Open Innovation

Feb-23-18 By IdeaConnection
They’re the mollusk world's 'most wanted' the mussels with a price on their gills. Invasive quagga and zebra mussels are a huge problem in parts of the United States and a solution is needed fast.

Scientists are stumped and so the US government is offering $100,000 prize for the best idea for how to stop their destructive spread.
The Sky’s the Limit with Open Innovation

The Sky’s the Limit with Open Innovation

Feb-16-18 By IdeaConnection
As part of its efforts to innovate and maintain a leading position in its market Singapore Airlines (SIA) is ramping up its open innovation endeavors.

Through its Digital Innovation Blueprint, the carrier is forging key partnerships with the National University of Singapore and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore among many others. Also on its agenda is a strengthening of its internal open innovation culture.

Open Innovation for Cyber Threat Defenses

Feb-09-18 By IdeaConnection
From ransomware attacks and tampering with voter systems to taking out electrical grids and mining cryptocurrencies, cyber threats are a global problem.

According to some in the intelligence communities, the threats they pose are as great as terrorism. The need for more and better defenses has never been greater. Cue open innovation.
Crowdsourcing Effort to Conserve Anti-Slavery Correspondence

Crowdsourcing Effort to Conserve Anti-Slavery Correspondence

Feb-02-18 By IdeaConnection
Massachusetts’s Boston Public Library has launched a fascinating project that is calling on the crowd for help.

The library’s new website features a raft of handwritten letters from the US abolitionist movement spanning 50 years, and it's asking volunteers to transcribe them one line at a time.