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Combating Looting from Space

Feb-03-17 By IdeaConnection
On any given day thousands of looted archeological artifacts are offered for sale on the black market, ancient treasures stolen from historical sites. To try to cut off supply, archeologists exert pressure on governments to do more to help in the battle against smugglers.

Now they have come up with a fresh approach - open innovation and the crowd.

Robot Gives Open Innvoation Drug Discovery a Boost

Jan-27-17 By IdeaConnection
In a bid to speed up the discovery and development of new drugs for cancer, pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is using what it claims is the world's most advanced drug discovery robot to search for new oncology treatments.

And through its open innovation program, AZ will provide its partners with "unprecedented access" to the bot, known as NiCoLA-B.

Open Innovation Task to Save England’s Green Spaces

Jan-20-17 By IdeaConnection
England may well be a green and pleasant land, but some of its parks are under threat.  Faced with budgetary cuts and increasing expenses, some local authorities are selling off green spaces to make ends meet.

Their actions are so worrying campaigners that they’ve launched an open innovation project to find out exactly what’s at risk.

Open Innovation Project to Detect Gravitational Waves

Jan-13-17 By IdeaConnection
Gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of space time that were predicted by Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity.  However, they are so tiny that detecting them has proved to be notoriously difficult.

The first detection of this elusive phenomenon was made around 100 years after Einstein’s work by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).  Now the scientists behind the research are turning to the crowd with an open innovation initiative to help them become better and faster at finding the tell-tale signs of gravitational waves.

AT&T’s Push to Transform Data Sharing

Jan-06-17 By IdeaConnection
Telecommunications giant AT&T is set to launch a new data sharing platform called Network 3.0 Indigo.

It will provide a trusted open innovation environment where organizations can share data and collaborate on analytics, free of the usual constraints that hamper some data-sharing communities, such as privacy, ownership and identity management.

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.