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Simulating the World’s Power Grid with Open Innovation

Dec-29-16 By IdeaConnection
An 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 IdeaConnection
President 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 IdeaConnection
In 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 IdeaConnection
According 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 IdeaConnection
IdeaConnection 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.

Listening to Sounds in Space with Open Innovation Project

Nov-25-16 By IdeaConnection
"In space, no one can hear you scream," was the tagline of the first Alien movie. And that's because there is no medium for sound to travel because space is a vacuum. Or is it?

Martin Archer is a space plasma physicist at the University of London currently working on an open innovation project to collect sounds from empty space, and he wants the crowd to help him with his endeavor.

Improving Indian Railways with Open Innovation

Nov-18-16 By IdeaConnection
Indian Railways has been ferrying passengers for 163 years. Now, for the first time in its history, the state-owned railway company is hosting an open innovation brainstorming session for the future of the service it offers.

Open Innovation Hackathon for Crises Preparation in Nigeria

Nov-11-16 By IdeaConnection
The forthcoming Delta State Open Innovation Hackathon 2016 is a huge problem-solving initiative in Nigeria, organized by the recently formed Delta State Innovation Hub (DS-IHUB).

The goal is to find solutions to fourteen ideas spread across nine categories, including e-agriculture, national security, cybercrime, oil and gas, education and the environment.

NASA’s Open Innovation Call for Lunar Concepts

Nov-04-16 By IdeaConnection
NASA is once again casting its net far and wide for ideas that will help it work out how humans can live in space.  This week, the space agency put out a request for ideas for devices that will help it discover more about the moon.

While NASA already knows a lot about our closest neighbor in space, the open innovation call is to help fill gaps in its knowledge.

Winners of Nokia’s 2016 Open Innovation Challenge Announced

Oct-28-16 By IdeaConnection
A big round of applause is due to the winners of Nokia’s 2016 Open Innovation Challenge, a global search for the next big ideas in the Internet of Things (IoT).

Among the winning concepts was a firewall for the connected home and a home medical innovation that can help with the early detection of breast cancer.