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Crowdsourcing Hamburger Recipes

Sep-01-15 By IdeaConnection
You can bet your bottom dollar that by the time you’ve read this post thousands of people will have uploaded pictures of food to their social media profiles.

There is a huge appetite for this food photography trend and among the snaps of restaurant meals and chocolate covered desserts will be pictures of customised burgers.

Such fan photos have given Canada’s South Street Burger Company an idea, crowdsource burger recipes.

Crowdsourcing Contest to Repurpose Old Bridge

Aug-26-15 By IdeaConnection
So, what do you do when you have a defunct railway bridge that is reaching the end of its technical life?  Tear it down, leave it to rot or something else?

If you’re Linz AG, the owner of the old bridge in Linz, Austria you launch a crowdsourcing contest for ideas of what to do with the crossing.

The 393-meter-long steel bridge, which spans the Danube River is 120 years old and no longer in use.  But such is its beauty and history that there are calls to preserve some, if not all of its parts.  

Can You Find Novel Applications for a New Membrane Technology?

Aug-18-15 By IdeaConnection
Calling all innovators and creative smarts. IdeaConnection has a fascinating innovation contest for you to get stuck into, from Strategic Allies.

The UK-based company is looking for novel applications for a new membrane material in a few specific industrial sectors of interest: automotive, packaging and dosing. If your solution is selected, €1,000 (approx. $US 1,000) is yours.

Nokia’s Latest Open Innovation Challenge

Aug-12-15 By IdeaConnection
Nokia's third consecutive open innovation challenge is up and running and is inviting participants to submit their brilliant ideas, technologies and business models for the internet of things (IoT).

Crowd Accelerated Innovation from IdeaConnection

Aug-08-15 By IdeaConnection
You’re a company with a challenging problem and you want it solved. You get in touch what IdeaConnection and it pools together members of its global network of solvers to help. A few weeks later you have your brilliant solution.  Job done.

IdeaConnection has earned a stellar reputation for solving complex problems for its clients, including Fortune 500 companies.  Therefore, it may not surprise you to learn that in addition to its existing portfolio of open innovation approaches, it is taking the paradigm to the next level.  With its new industry challenges service, IdeaConnection's solvers will proactively tackle industry-specific roadblocks to scientific, technological and engineering advances in any field.

Want to Solve a Problem? Involve some non-experts

Aug-06-15 By Paul Wagorn
Having years of experience can help people tackle problems on an intuitive level.  If you’ve worked in an area for 20 years, you automatically know what potential solutions have a good chance of working, and which ones have a poor chance of working.

Wearable Technologies for the Developing World

Jul-28-15 By IdeaConnection
There is still time to enter the UNICEF Wearables for Good challenge, a global open innovation contest for innovative wearable technology ideas to improve lives for millions of families in less developed countries.

The competition was launched back in May and invites anyone anywhere to submit ideas that are cost-effective, efficient and sustainable, even if the technology doesn't exist.  Big dreamers and their visions are wanted.

Global Search for Messages to Send to Alien Life

Jul-21-15 By IdeaConnection
So, apart from saying "you look a lot different than in the movies", what would you say to an alien?
If you've got an idea of how you would introduce humanity to an alien civilization you could win yourself some big money prizes.

Open Innovation Water Challenge Seeks Novel Solutions

Jul-14-15 By IdeaConnection
Do you have smart ideas about water reduction and reuse?  If so, GE and Statoil’s Sustainability Collaboration want to hear from you.

The American multinational and the Norwegian oil and gas company have combined forces to launch their second open innovation competition, “Reduced Use and Reuse of Water in Onshore Operations”.

Crowdsourcing Antibiotic Resistance Drugs

Jul-07-15 By IdeaConnection
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest problems facing modern medicine today.  Some bacteria are naturally immune to the drugs that are thrown at them, while others lose sensitivity to their effects.

To help combat this problem, a crowdsourcing project is inviting chemists from all over the world to donate samples of compounds they have synthesized.