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Participate in Public Open Innovation Challenges

Nov-10-17 By IdeaConnection
A fantastic way for organizations to give their innovation endeavours a rocket-sized boost and for innovators to get their teeth stuck into fascinating challenges is with IdeaConnection's public challenges platform. Through this, our problem solvers and crowdsourced participants work to develop world-beating solutions.

One of our current public open innovation challenges is being hosted on behalf of the University of Iowa and it's asking solvers to develop an analytical model that will help identify the best-performing stocks over time.

Calling All Innovators: 2018 Syngenta Crop Challenge Needs You!

Nov-03-17 By IdeaConnection
For the world to grow enough food for the projected global population in 2050, agricultural productivity will have to rise significantly, perhaps even double what it is now. One potential hurdle is that we're running out of cropland - land needed to grow crops. Other obstacles include climate change, limited growing conditions, and water scarcity.

To help generate the maximum yield from crops corn breeders develop experimental hybrids by finding the best combination of genes that result in high yielding hybrids.  These are tested in diverse locations and their performance measured, but there is a limited number of locations breeders can test.This results in fewer observations which means there can be uncertainty when selecting new hybrids.

So this is where you can come in by contributing to an open innovation challenge that could net you thousands of dollars.

Kill Off a Carcinogen with Open Innovation

Oct-27-17 By IdeaConnection
According to estimates, a quarter of the world's food crops are contaminated by aflatoxin. The toxin is a carcinogen produced by some types of fungi that are found on maize, cottonseed and other crops.

To help eradicate the problem a new open innovation initiative has been launched that is inviting gamers to find solutions.

Get Your Invention Noticed with IdeaConnection’s Network of Crowdsellers

Oct-19-17 By IdeaConnection
So you're an inventor with a brilliant new product that you know is going to fly off store shelves.  Now all you need to do is find someone and convince them to buy it.  This is the part that trips up many people so consequently, their ideas never get the attention they deserve.  They greatly underestimate the time, effort and expertise that is needed.  Getting an invention to market is more than just having a great idea.  So wouldn’t it be handy to have an avenue for exposing your creation to interested parties?

Fortunately, there is an easier way to get the right people to notice your innovation and that is to crowdsell it through IdeaConnection.

XPrize Backing for Earlier Alzheimer’s Detection

Oct-13-17 By IdeaConnection
XPrize has said that it has chosen to focus on the early detection of Alzheimer's disease for its next Grand Challenge, to be launched next year.

The announcement was made at its annual Visioneers Summit where five proposals for future open innovation challenges were evaluated.

How Open Innovation Could Help Improve a City’s Future

Oct-06-17 By IdeaConnection
Marikina City in the Philippines is beset by two major challenging situations: 1) natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods due to overflowing rivers and 2) manmade problems that are common to many cities around the world. These include social welfare issues such as a lack of maternal healthcare.

To help give citizens a brighter future seven innovators from all over the world flew into the city to come up with solutions via open innovation.

Open Innovation Success Stories in the Car Industry

Sep-29-17 By IdeaConnection
Open innovation success stories abound in multiple industries as enterprises the world over seek the wisdom of the crowd to help them develop new products and services, get over innovation roadblocks, see where their industries are heading and to steal a march on their competitors.

In this post, we highlight a few success stories where open innovation has helped to give the automotive industry a boost.

Tackling Alzheimer’s Disease with Open Innovation

Sep-22-17 By IdeaConnection
Alzheimer's is an incurable and fatal disease that affects around 50 million people all over the world. Included in this number are nearly half of individuals who are over 85 years of age.

To accelerate research into treatment and detection and to find a cure, a group known as the Alzheimer’s Breakthrough team is turning to open innovation and crowdsourcing models.

Open innovation and Real-Time Mapping of Irma Flooding

Sep-15-17 By IdeaConnection
Open innovation, social media and mobile technologies are rapidly changing the face of disaster preparation, response, relief and rescue. Success relies on how well intelligence coming from the crowd is harnessed.

In preparation for the approach of Hurricane Irma, Broward County in Florida launched Riskmap.us, a public reporting platform for disaster management.

Open Innovation Solutions Sought for Colombia’s Coffee Industry

Sep-08-17 By IdeaConnection
Colombian coffee is known the world over for the richness of its varieties and flavors.  But the country's coffee growing industry is in the midst of challenging times that require fresh thinking. That is why the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation (FNC) has put out a global open innovation call for help.

The challenge is called "CoffeepickINN" and it is a search for innovative solutions to make selective coffee harvesting in Colombia more efficient and profitable.