New Open Innovation Challenges to Enter
Eyes down for a raft of new open innovation challenges that are offering big money opportunities. Solutions are required to improve the outcome for patients with rare diseases, to trap illegal robocallers, to prevent the spread of infectious diseases and to come up with a hit television series.
The Rare Genomics Institute (RGI) is rolling out the BeHEARD Challenge (Helping Empower and Accelerate Research Discoveries), a global crowdsourcing contest to accelerate personalized rare disease studies. Research proposals are welcome from scientists, patient groups, researchers or anyone else whose ideas are constrained because of limited resources. Among the prizes are $600,000 of ‘sponsored cutting-edge technology and services’.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched a new open innovation search for technologies that will deter robocalls, those nuisance calls that deliver political or pre-recorded sales messages. There’s $25,000 up for grabs for the person or team who develops a technology that blocks robocalls on landlines and mobile phones and sends them to a honeypot for analysis.
Edison National Medical, a healthcare innovation marketplace has launched a global search for products, devices, technologies or applications that will help prevent the transmission and spread of infectious diseases. Among the idea categories are protective garments and gear, education tools on how to prevent the spread of infection, and infection detection and monitoring devices. The aim is to commercialize qualifying inventions, and the inventors will share licensing royalties and revenues with Edison National Medical.
And there’s still time to enter The Next MacGyver, an open innovation contest seeking ideas for a TV series with a female engineer as the lead character
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