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Nokia Open Innovation Challenge Winners Announced

Nov-11-15 By IdeaConnection
Congratulations to the winners of the latest Nokia Open Innovation Challenge.

The multinational communications company has been handing out gongs to the top 10 innovators of the 2015 iteration of the contest.

Open Innovation Contest for Cancer Solutions

Nov-04-15 By IdeaConnection
Cancer is one of the most insidious diseases to plague humans, but now it has a new enemy –the Nanotechnology Start-up Challenge for Cancer (NSC2).

This recently launched open innovation initiative is an international search for nanotechnology cancer-related inventions that will make a positive and powerful impact on human health.

Crowdsourcing Help to Combat Terrorism

Oct-28-15 By IdeaConnection
With global terrorism seemingly on the rise, the US Department of Defense has turned to crowdsourcing to speed up solutions for combatting the threat.

It has created the Laboratory Innovation Crowdsourcing portal, which allows those in the field to pose challenges to solvers across the federal government.

How the Crowd Can Help Discover New Antibiotics

Oct-21-15 By IdeaConnection
Antibiotic resistance continues to be a global threat to healthcare.  According to the World Health Organization (WHO) the planet is heading toward a post-antibiotic era where common infections are killers, unless urgent, coordinated action is taken.  These are infections that have been treatable for decades.

A new citizen's science platform hopes to be doing its bit to help with the battle against the bugs by developing a small home lab that anyone can use.

Open Innovation Search for Medical Advances

Oct-14-15 By IdeaConnection
If you've got an idea of how to improve patient care or drive down the cost of health care through remote patient monitoring, then Boston Scientific wants to hear from you.

The company has launched its Boston Scientific Connected Patient Challenge, an open innovation contest for novel medical advances.

A Crowdsourced Business Venture with 1,000 Founders

Oct-07-15 By IdeaConnection
A new startup is about to get off the blocks and it currently has no idea about what it will sell and to whom. But it will have 1,000 founders who will all pitch in their ideas and have a stake in the company.
GroupMinded is an experiment in crowdsourcing that will involve all founders in everything, from conception of the idea right through to how the product is packaged and marketed.

Great Technology Quotes

Sep-30-15 By IdeaConnection
Whether you are potting about in your garden shed inventing things, someone who believes they are sitting on the next big thing or a top flight engineer, here is a handful of thought provoking technology quotes to inspire and amuse:

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” - Isaac Asimov, author

Cancer Drug Research Given a Boost by Involving the Crowd

Sep-22-15 By IdeaConnection
To speed up the search for drug cancer therapeutics, AstraZeneca wants to harness the wisdom of the crowd to find new cancer drug cocktails.

The pharmaceutical behemoth is releasing colossal amounts of preclinical data from more than 50 of its medicines. According to the company, this public release of information is on an unprecedented scale.

Crowdsourcing Helps Discover a New Species of Human

Sep-15-15 By IdeaConnection
In 2013, palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger was in something of a quandary. The South Africa-based scientist had heard about a small cave filled with early human fossils, but the narrow chamber is difficult to get to.
He needed help to retrieve the remains before they deteriorated any further. So he posted a plea for assistance on social media.

How the Crowd is Charting the Changing Landscape

Sep-09-15 By IdeaConnection
Hampshire County Council in the UK is turning to members of the crowd to assist it in monitoring the ever changing landscape.

The information they provide could help prevent problems before they occur, such as flooding or changes that might threaten the natural habitats of local wildlife.