Open Innovation
SUCCESS STORIES

Open innovation success stories from a broad range of companies, and a diverse range of open innovation intermediaries.

Space Apps Challenge: An Open Innovation Incubator to Help Nasa Solve Problems

Space Apps Challenge: An Open Innovation Incubator to Help Nasa Solve Problems

NASA, United States
The American space agency NASA is home to some of the smartest brains on the planet but even so it knows it doesn’t have the monopoly on great ideas which is why for many years it has engaged with n...
Affordable Transportation Network Wins $1 Million Open Innovation Prize

Affordable Transportation Network Wins $1 Million Open Innovation Prize

The Hult Prize, United States
Every year for eight years thousands of students around the world have participated in the Hult Prize, an open innovation competition that seeks innovative solutions to such tough social issues as wat...
Building India’s Future with Open Innovation

Building India’s Future with Open Innovation

The Government of India, India
To help solve some of India's most pressing problems and at the same time encourage the next generation of problem solvers, the Indian government hosts a nationwide hackathon for students called the S...
Accelerating Data Processing During Police Investigations

Accelerating Data Processing During Police Investigations

The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, Netherlands
Police forces already have a variety of data tools to help them fight crime. They include YouTube videos, intercepted voice conversations, social media posts and the contents of computers. Data an...
Leveraging Snow Plow Data to Clear a City’s Roads

Leveraging Snow Plow Data to Clear a City’s Roads

School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, United States
Every winter when the elements dump a lot of snow on towns, cities and roads out come the snow plows and gritting trucks to help people move about. In the United States, the city of Syracuse is one of...
Open Innovation Quest to Protect NFL Players from Concussion

Open Innovation Quest to Protect NFL Players from Concussion

National Football League and others, United States
For the National Football League (NFL) in the United States and its players concussion is a major issue that has been dominating the headlines for years. In 2017 alone, a record 291 concussions were r...
Open Innovation Tackles Agricultural Challenges

Open Innovation Tackles Agricultural Challenges

Agri-Tech East, United Kingdom
Agriculture like many other industries has a lot of intractable problems. In an attempt to solve some of them a business focused cluster of organizations in the UK called Agri-Tech East hosted a hacka...
Crowdsourcing Algorithms to Stop Illegal Fishing

Crowdsourcing Algorithms to Stop Illegal Fishing

The National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office, United States
Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) is a huge problem worldwide that puts fishing stocks under greater pressure, threatens food security and the livelihoods of coastal communities and is...
Big Data Analytics and Landslide Prediction

Big Data Analytics and Landslide Prediction

University of Melbourne, Australia
Landslides are large movements of rock, earth and debris down a slope driven by gravity. They can occur suddenly or move slowly over a longer period and can be triggered by a number of factors. These
Open Innovation Solutions for Hajj Safety

Open Innovation Solutions for Hajj Safety

Saudi Federation for Cybersecurity, Programming and Drones, Saudi Arabia
Every year more than two million people travel to Saudi Arabia to complete the Hajj pilgrimage. This journey to Mecca is seen as one of the five pillars of Islam and is central to the faith. Pilgrims
Algorithms to Better Predict Epileptic Seizures

Algorithms to Better Predict Epileptic Seizures

University of Melbourne, Australia
Epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disorder in the world affecting more than 65 million people of all ages. It is characterized by unpredictable and unprovoked seizures. A seizure is a s...
Breakthrough AI Technology as Good as Experts

Breakthrough AI Technology as Good as Experts

Moorfields Eye Hospital/DeepMind, United Kingdom
A 2018 study by Moorfields Eye Hospital in London (the oldest eye hospital in the world) and the Google company DeepMind discovered that artificial intelligence can diagnose some eye diseases as well
Answering Big Questions about the Universe with Big Data

Answering Big Questions about the Universe with Big Data

The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, Netherlands
Whether you engage a large crowd or a small collection of individuals with subject matter expertise a hackathon can result in new products and breakthrough solutions in a short space of time. To help
Big Data Solutions for French Multinational

Big Data Solutions for French Multinational

Air Liquide, France
If used properly, data can become one of the most important assets a company possesses. More of it is being generated than ever before and it's driving a new era of innovation. But making sense of a...
Big Data Keeps London Moving

Big Data Keeps London Moving

Transport for London, United Kingdom
Like every major city around the world, London has a huge transport infrastructure that is not without its challenges as it tries to move millions of people every day. In fact, the UK capital's road n...
The Rise of Big Data in Detecting Insurance Fraud

The Rise of Big Data in Detecting Insurance Fraud

Insurance industry, United States
Insurance fraud is a huge problem that costs insurers billions of dollars. In testimony to the USA Congress in 2017, the head of the Insurance Information Institute estimated that the cost to the ind...
Big Data Solutions for Porsche Driverless Technology

Big Data Solutions for Porsche Driverless Technology

Porsche, Germany
The race to driverless cars is pitching tech giants against traditional car manufacturers in a global effort to build businesses selling vehicles that don't need human drivers. It has been the stuff o...
The Big Data Revolution in Soccer

The Big Data Revolution in Soccer

The German national soccer team and others, Germany
In the summer of 2018, soccer fans from all over the world had their eyes on Russia for the World Cup, a global competition in which 32 international teams competed for the most prestigious prize in t...
Using Open Data to Tackle Sustainable Development Challenges

Using Open Data to Tackle Sustainable Development Challenges

UNESCO, Singapore
Water pollution is a big issue in Vietnam and it has a number of causes including weaknesses in industrial wastewater management and a lack of awareness among citizens who dump rubbish in rivers, cana...
How AI is Bringing a Paradigm Shift to Brain Disorders

How AI is Bringing a Paradigm Shift to Brain Disorders

University of Bari, Italy
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine has been evolving so well in recent years that it can be incorporated into real-world clinical practice. By making use of machine learning, big dat...
How Gatwick Airport is Embracing Big Data

How Gatwick Airport is Embracing Big Data

Gatwick Airport, United Kingdom
Increasingly airlines and airports are starting to embrace big data and data analytics to improve their operations and the customer experience. These days air travel is no longer considered a luxury,...
Big Data Solutions for Public Health Issues

Big Data Solutions for Public Health Issues

San Diego State University, United States
No matter what industry you are or were in there's a chance that the use of big data is making a big impact, or if it hasn't it will do soon. The big data revolution is the key to solving many proble...
Data Analytics to Support Learning and Teaching

Data Analytics to Support Learning and Teaching

University of British Columbia, Canada
The education sector like many others is embracing the power and potential of data and data analytics. It's early days but with more courses going online there is a lot of research to be done to fig...
How Big Data is Transforming Education

How Big Data is Transforming Education

Education Sector, United States
Leveraging large amounts of data has been eagerly embraced by multiple industries. From agriculture and healthcare to retail and banking, gleaning insights from data is making a tremendous impact, he...
Using AI and Deep Learning to Predict Mortality

Using AI and Deep Learning to Predict Mortality

Google, United States
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes," wrote Benjamin Franklin. While we will all one day shuffle off this mortal coil the timing and nature is not certain. However...
Artificial Intelligence Portal for Job Opportunities

Artificial Intelligence Portal for Job Opportunities

BFM-Edge Business School, Malaysia
The nature of innovation has been changing in recent years, characterized by a greater openness. Companies of all sizes are encouraging internal departments to collaborate with each other as well as
AI Hackathon leads to Product Enhancement

AI Hackathon leads to Product Enhancement

Applaud Solutions, United Kingdom
As companies embrace open innovation in greater numbers more are looking to hackathons as vehicles for innovation where participants work intensively in teams or own their own to solve problems or dev...
Rail Industry Makes Tracks with Big Data

Rail Industry Makes Tracks with Big Data

Union Pacific, United States
With big data comes insights and strategies that can lead to costs savings, improved efficiencies and better systems. The transport industry collects a lot of data from a variety of sources and unders...
Using Big Data to Find Solutions to the Refugee Crisis

Using Big Data to Find Solutions to the Refugee Crisis

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Switzerland
The number of refugees around the world is truly shocking. According to figures by the UNHCR the UN Refugee Agency, there are currently around 22.5 million people who have fled countries such as Syri...
Improving the Retail Experience with Big Data

Improving the Retail Experience with Big Data

A.S. Watson Group, Hong Kong
One important way that retailers get ahead of each other and steal a march on their competitors is by enhancing the experiences they offer their customers. When many stores, shops and boutiques eithe...
Turning Raw Data into Models to Improve Aviation Fuel Efficiency

Turning Raw Data into Models to Improve Aviation Fuel Efficiency

Honeywell International Inc., United States
Aviation fuel is expensive, contributing to about 30% of the operating costs of airlines. It also has a considerable carbon footprint. According to the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, aviatio...
Improving Airport Security with Better Algorithms

Improving Airport Security with Better Algorithms

Department of Homeland Security/Transportation Security Administration, United States
Data science competitions are an increasingly popular way for companies to solve complex big data projects. They're relatively low cost and pit hundreds if not thousands of the smartest amateur and pr...
Combating Infectious Diseases with Artificial Intelligence

Combating Infectious Diseases with Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence in Medical Epidemiology (AIME), United States
Many of our 21st-century problems can be solved by big data and artificial intelligence. One of those challenges is improving our ability to forecast future infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics
Artificial Intelligence Innovations for Education

Artificial Intelligence Innovations for Education

OpenEd.ai, United States
Artificial intelligence has been around for a long time, but recent years have seen an increased buzz about its use and possible applications in dozens of industries. Additionally, big tech companies...
Using Big Data to Improve London’s Transport Network

Using Big Data to Improve London’s Transport Network

Transport for London, United Kingdom
Like many big cities, London has a vast transport network to get its citizens and visitors safely from A to B in a timely fashion. Doing so is a complex task as millions of tube, bus and rail passenge...
Royal Navy Search for Novel AI Solutions

Royal Navy Search for Novel AI Solutions

Ministry of Defense, United Kingdom
Data and artificial intelligence offer a lot of opportunities for improving defenses. While partially autonomous and intelligent systems have been a critical part of military technology since at least...
Big Data Systems and AI to Cut Electricity Bills

Big Data Systems and AI to Cut Electricity Bills

University of Queensland, Australia
Artificial intelligence is going to be used to cut power bills in thousands of homes across Queensland, Australia. The University of Queensland, an energy start-up called Redback Technologies and othe...
 Basketball and Business Data Analytics Solutions for the NBA

Basketball and Business Data Analytics Solutions for the NBA

National Basketball Association, United States
Big data and analytics are making huge inroads into sports. From an athlete’s rate of respiration to the timing of a touchdown, the speed of a lap and the percentage of first serves won, sporting a...
Hasbro Gets New Game Product via Open Innovation

Hasbro Gets New Game Product via Open Innovation

Hasbro, Inc, United States
Hasbro is one of the largest toy makers in the world. The American multinational has been in business since its founding in 1923 and owns a number of hugely popular game brands such as Monopoly, My L...
 Open Innovation Search for Healthcare Solutions

Open Innovation Search for Healthcare Solutions

Humana Inc., United States
Artificial intelligence is a fast-moving field with dramatic changes to society and the economy predicted. It is rapidly becoming a ubiquitous presence in our lives and its impact will be felt in mul...
Open Innovation is Making an Impact in the Hotel Industry

Open Innovation is Making an Impact in the Hotel Industry

Park Inn by Radisson, United Kingdom
Hotels like businesses in all other industries face numerous challenges and have to innovate to improve their offerings, gain a competitive advantage and thrive. Standing still is rarely if ever a go...
Open Innovation for Business Reforms in Nigeria

Open Innovation for Business Reforms in Nigeria

The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council, Nigeria
Once considered a pastime of caffeine and pizza-fueled geeks, hackathons are now increasingly being seen as a way for companies to innovate and for organizations to uncover solutions for the benefit o...
Combating Fake News with Open Innovation

Combating Fake News with Open Innovation

Yale University, United States
In recent times fake news has been spreading like a plague throughout the world. The lies and false information are purposefully created to confuse and misinform. Among the reasons why so many peopl...
Open Innovation Boost for Medication Adherence

Open Innovation Boost for Medication Adherence

National University of Singapore, Singapore
Open innovation is fueling an exciting phase of creativity and ingenuity in the health and medical care sectors involving individuals and organizations from multiple disciplines all over the world.
Open Innovation Provides Sustainable Building Solutions

Open Innovation Provides Sustainable Building Solutions

Climate-KIC, Norway
In 2015 in Europe, the EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation designated open innovation a political priority for the EU Commission (one of several organizations that manage the European...
Breakthrough Ice Cream Product via Open Innovation

Breakthrough Ice Cream Product via Open Innovation

Solo Gelato, Israel
Just as domestic kitchens or workplaces can be stocked with machines dispensing coffee, wine and soda drinks in an instant, there is now a device that serves up instant fresh ice cream. The machine is...
Innovative Breakthroughs with Nokia Open Innovation Challenge

Innovative Breakthroughs with Nokia Open Innovation Challenge

Nokia, Finland
For many years Nokia has engaged in open innovation practices to expand innovation opportunities exponentially, opening the door to external collaborators from multiple industries. It does this in se...
Harnessing New Ideas Through Open Innovation

Harnessing New Ideas Through Open Innovation

John Keells Holdings, Sri Lanka
Ideas are the lifeblood of innovation but they only have currency if acted upon. Open innovation competitions often generate a lot of interest and novel concepts with prize money being awarded to the
Disruptive Open Innovation Event Yields Novel ADHD Diagnosis Tool

Disruptive Open Innovation Event Yields Novel ADHD Diagnosis Tool

reVIVE/TechCrunch, United States
For one weekend in May 2017 Pier 36 in New York was a feverish hub of creativity and imagination as hundreds of developers, engineers and innovators took part in the Disrupt NY 2017 hackathon organize...
Open Innovation Solutions to the Opioid Epidemic

Open Innovation Solutions to the Opioid Epidemic

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), United States
Opioid abuse is a huge problem in many countries. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) in the United States, 90 Americans a day are overdosing on opioids. Since 1999 overdose deat...
Diagnosing Plant Diseases with Artificial Intelligence

Diagnosing Plant Diseases with Artificial Intelligence

University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, United States
For two exciting days in July 2017, the Urban Hive in Sacramento, California was a hub of feverish intellectual activity and creative endeavors. More than 40 people who hailed from across the US compe...
Mining Big Data for Innovative Solutions

Mining Big Data for Innovative Solutions

The European Commission, Belgium
There are huge volumes of data swirling around within and between organizations. Tapping into the facts, figures, files and statistics to innovate isn't a new concept but what is a relatively recent d...
Breakthrough Thinking for Hospital Electrical Systems

Breakthrough Thinking for Hospital Electrical Systems

Schneider Electric, United States
As open innovation has grown and developed in recent years more and more innovators have signed up to take part in challenges, contests, and hackathons. Often, they devote a lot of time toward finding...
New Lego Play Set via Open Innovation

New Lego Play Set via Open Innovation

The Lego Group, Denmark
The toy industry like many others needs to innovate to survive. To meet an insatiable audience demand for novelty several companies regularly tap into the creativity and imaginations of its end users....
Open Innovation for the Future of Public Transportation

Open Innovation for the Future of Public Transportation

Transport Systems Catapult, United Kingdom
When Transport Systems Catapult (TSC) a UK-based innovation center for intelligent mobility was looking for the next big thing in transportation it turned to the wisdom of the crowd. The organization
Open Innovation Approach to Creating Novel Home Appliances

Open Innovation Approach to Creating Novel Home Appliances

GE Appliances, United States
Companies looking to continually innovate can benefit from engaging with open innovation. Doing so can open the doors to different ways of thinking that can lead to new products and services and a gre...
Open Innovation for a Predator-Free New Zealand

Open Innovation for a Predator-Free New Zealand

Landcare Research, New Zealand
In recent years, New Zealand has embarked on a drive to become predator free. Invasive predators such as feral cats, ship rats, stoats, and possums threaten the survival of native species. To counter
Open Innovation Catalyzes Life-Changing Innovations

Open Innovation Catalyzes Life-Changing Innovations

Vodafone, United States
Multinational telecommunications company Vodafone engages with open innovation in a number of ways. For example, through its Enterprise Innovation Program it provides a place where customers and small...
Porsche Open Innovation Contest Aims to Disrupt Car Industry

Porsche Open Innovation Contest Aims to Disrupt Car Industry

Porsche, Germany
Blockchain technology is the distributed, encrypted ledger technology that powers the crypto currency bitcoin, an ingenious invention that consists of a continually growing list of records (blocks) wh...
How Open Innovation is Improving Satellite Intelligence Analysis

How Open Innovation is Improving Satellite Intelligence Analysis

The Defense Science and Technology Laboratory, United Kingdom
If you want to tap into brilliant minds no matter where they are in the world engage with open innovation. Who knows where the solutions lie to the problems and challenges that vex you? The UK's De...
Open Innovation Tackles Dementia Care Challenges

Open Innovation Tackles Dementia Care Challenges

Facebook/UK Government/HackerNest, Canada
You only have to do a little bit of search engine interrogation to see how widespread hackathons have become and the brilliant results they are generating. These open innovation events are proven for...
Novel Solutions to Infrastructure Problems

Novel Solutions to Infrastructure Problems

American Society of Civil Engineers, United States
There's nothing quite like the thrill of an intellectual challenge and the carrot of possible financial reward to focus bright and creative minds on problem solving. The open innovation contest has fu...
Open Innovation Search for Data-Driven Solutions for the Urban Environment

Open Innovation Search for Data-Driven Solutions for the Urban Environment

Government of the Republic of Korea
There is no need to reinvent the wheel, not if a solution to your problem already exists or someone else can work it out for you. All you need to do then is go and find them. That is one of the bene...
Open Innovation Solutions for Aging US Infrastructure

Open Innovation Solutions for Aging US Infrastructure

Association of Equipment Manufacturers, United States
On August 1 2007 during the evening rush hour, the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge in Minneapolis suddenly collapsed, killing thirteen people and injuring many more. The cause was later discovered to
Open Innovation Drone Project Reaches for the Skies

Open Innovation Drone Project Reaches for the Skies

DHL, Germany
There are lots of ways companies can engage external smarts through open innovation, such as open innovation challenges, hackathons, innovation contests and technology scouting. An approach that is p...
Open Innovation for Vegas Smart City Efforts

Open Innovation for Vegas Smart City Efforts

ReadWrite/Amazon Alexa, United States
Las Vegas may well be known as a hedonistic playground of gambling, girls and all-night parties, but it is also something of a test bed for smart city technologies and services. While definitions
Open Innovation Boost for Enrollment in Oncology Clinical Trials

Open Innovation Boost for Enrollment in Oncology Clinical Trials

Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, United States
Cancer is one of the most dangerous and devastating illnesses today, a complex mix of diseases with different causes, patterns and development paths. Much is understood, but much is also unknown. Ope...
Leveraging Open Innovation for Climate Resilience

Leveraging Open Innovation for Climate Resilience

World Bank, United States
Innovations are vital for addressing one of the most pressing issues of our time: climate change and its impact on life on this planet. At the same time, there is a big data revolution sweeping the g...
Addressing Flooding Issues through Open Innovation

Addressing Flooding Issues through Open Innovation

Glasgow City Council/Innovate UK/Climate-KIC, United Kingdom
Glasgow, the biggest city in Scotland is at high risk of severe flooding events. Extreme rainfall, tidal rivers, aging sewers and the fact that much of it sits on a floodplain are the leading contribu...
Solving Prostate Cancer Challenges with Open Innovation

Solving Prostate Cancer Challenges with Open Innovation

DREAM/Sage Bionetworks, United States
The DREAM Challenges are an open innovation project that uses big data to solve very tough challenges in the realms of medicine. Participants come from across the globe and include university researc...
Open innovation Tackles Packaging Industry Challenges

Open innovation Tackles Packaging Industry Challenges

Dutch Packaging Association, Netherlands
"Packaging must constantly rejuvenate," according to Michaël Nieuwesteeg, the managing director of the Dutch Packaging Association (NVC). He was talking to a reporter in the run-up to De Gouden Noot...
Open Innovation Drives Sustainable Transportation Solutions

Open Innovation Drives Sustainable Transportation Solutions

The Youth For Public Transport Foundation, Belgium
The pace of innovation can be frustratingly slow for many different reasons. Intellectual property protections maybe weak, intellectual and financial resources might be thin on the ground, there coul...
Open Innovation Builds a House with Big Data

Open Innovation Builds a House with Big Data

Hemnet and Tham & Videgård, Sweden
Sweden is a country that has wholeheartedly embraced the sharing economy, engaging in numerous crowdsourcing and open innovation initiatives on a national scale. This has included putting the country...
An Example of Open Innovation Success with Procter & Gamble

An Example of Open Innovation Success with Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble, United States
Open innovation works. Conceptually, it has always been a nifty concept, albeit an abstract one for some organizations. However, claims about its many benefits are backed up by several academic stud...
DHL Receives Delivery of Novel Solutions via Open innovation

DHL Receives Delivery of Novel Solutions via Open innovation

DHL, Germany
Parcel company DHL is a firm believer in the potential of open innovation to help businesses and industries to grow. And recognizing the need for innovation in the logistics industry, it has repeated...
How Johnson & Johnson are Accelerating Product Development with Open Innovation

How Johnson & Johnson are Accelerating Product Development with Open Innovation

Johnson & Johnson, United States
In recent years, Johnson & Johnson has embarked on an ambitious open innovation program. One part of this is throwing open its doors to smaller enterprises and startups by providing "no strings attac...
Open Innovation Ideas for Smart Cities

Open Innovation Ideas for Smart Cities

KPIT Technologies Limited, India
Smart cities are defined as urban regions that are highly advanced in terms of infrastructure and that use technology to share information and improve the quality of services and life for citizens. A...
Innovation Teams Generate Common Good Solutions

Innovation Teams Generate Common Good Solutions

New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), United Arab Emirates
Every year, NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) organizes a three-day global hackathon, inviting students and mentors from all over the world to come up with ideas to benefit the common good. It is a great example
Developing Innovations for the Sharing Economy

Developing Innovations for the Sharing Economy

Innovate UK, United Kingdom
The sharing economy, also known as the access economy and the peer-to-peer economy is a trend that is growing fast. It is built around the sharing and renting/hiring of physical, human and intellectua...
How Open Innovation Can Help AirAsia Improve the Customer Experience

How Open Innovation Can Help AirAsia Improve the Customer Experience

AirAsia, Malaysia
The best ideas don't often come from a single person, a lone inventor working in isolation - they're the result of collaboration. One of the most exciting ways to collaborate is to get smart peopl...
Open Innovation Talent Search Finds Novel Social Platform

Open Innovation Talent Search Finds Novel Social Platform

NTT Data, Japan
A subheading of NTT DATA's global Open Innovation Business Contest 5.0 was 'Let's innovate together, the solutions nobody has imagined'. It neatly summed up two of the hallmarks of open innovation -
Open Innovation Generates Novel Uses for a Natural Citrus Fiber

Open Innovation Generates Novel Uses for a Natural Citrus Fiber

Fiberstar, United States
Nobody knows where the next big idea is going to come from. Allowing all stakeholders and interested parties to get involved in brainstorming, ideation and innovation, and not just the R&D department...
Disrupting Gold Mining with Open Innovation

Disrupting Gold Mining with Open Innovation

Goldcorp/Integra Gold Corp, Canada
In 2000, Goldcorp astonished the mining industry by releasing its proprietary geological data for an open innovation initiative that challenged participants to tell the company where best to dig for g...
Open Innovation Approach to Redesigning Hotel Rooms

Open Innovation Approach to Redesigning Hotel Rooms

Eurostars Hotels, Spain
Eurostars Hotels is a hotel chain based in Barcelona, Spain with 90 establishments in many European countries as well as Mexico City. Currently, it has set itself the challenge of reinventing the hot...
Hackathon to Find Ways to Use Robots to Address Elderly Healthcare Needs

Hackathon to Find Ways to Use Robots to Address Elderly Healthcare Needs

Segway Robotics/MIT, Singapore
So you’ve got a technical challenge you need solving or you want some fresh thinking applied to one of your products. What’s more, you’d like the answers quickly: what can you do? How about ge...
Open Innovation Call to Help Astronauts Poop Safely in Space

Open Innovation Call to Help Astronauts Poop Safely in Space

NASA, United States
When you need to go, you need to go. But, what if you’re an astronaut on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station and you get the call of nature? Currently, you would relieve yourself
Combating Fake News with Open Innovation

Combating Fake News with Open Innovation

HeroX, United States
In an era of fake news, truth and verifiable facts are taking a back seat. Websites and organizations are deliberately pumping out false stories, hoaxes, lies and misinformation that purports to be re...
A Big Step Forward for ALS Treatment Research

A Big Step Forward for ALS Treatment Research

Prize4Life, United States
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that causes the death of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Affected people gradually lose the ability to speak, eat, move and...
Open Innovation Delivers Disruptive Formula 1 Ideas

Open Innovation Delivers Disruptive Formula 1 Ideas

Formula 1/Tata Communications, India
As well as being home to some of the fastest racers on the planet, Formula 1 is also a hotbed of innovation, a fantastic laboratory where new technologies are developed, tested and introduced. In rec...
Open Innovation Platform Delivers Autonomous Bus

Open Innovation Platform Delivers Autonomous Bus

Local Motors, United States
One of the many companies out there to have taken the open innovation ball and run with it is Local Motors. Most of the vehicles it produces are designed by people who don't work for the business. Cus...
Rescue Robot for Disaster Relief Wins Open Innovation Challenge

Rescue Robot for Disaster Relief Wins Open Innovation Challenge

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea
In March 2011, Japan was rocked by a mega-earthquake and tsunami. The natural disaster crippled the Fukushima nuclear power station, leading to the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Workers at t...
A Timely Idea to Inspire Healthy Eating

A Timely Idea to Inspire Healthy Eating

Electrolux, Sweden
Food and beverage companies are increasingly looking outside their four walls to enhance their internal R&D expertise. They are taking advantage of a wealth of open innovation approaches, such as comp...
Open Innovation and the Refugee Crisis

Open Innovation and the Refugee Crisis

The European Commission, Belgium
In 2016, more than 220,000 people fled to Europe to escape conflict, disaster and unrest. During the previous year that figure was more than one million. This unprecedented flow of people, many of wh...
Open Innovation Search for Disruptive Technologies

Open Innovation Search for Disruptive Technologies

Cisco Systems, United States
The phrase "disruptive innovation" was coined by business consultant and author Clayton M. Christensen and examined in his book ‘The Innovator's Dilemma’. It describes an innovation that creates
Open Innovation Event Helps Safety Agencies Solve Operational Challenges

Open Innovation Event Helps Safety Agencies Solve Operational Challenges

Motorola, Australia
A riot in a crowded bar, a public demonstration that turns violent, a hurricane that devastates a region and acts of terrorism are just some of many potential threats that public safety organizations
Open Innovation Boost to Drug Development

Open Innovation Boost to Drug Development

AstraZeneca, United Kingdom
AstraZeneca is a British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and bio-pharmaceutical company that since March 2014 has been ramping up its medical research efforts. That was when it launched a massiv...
Conglomerate Reaps Benefits of Open Innovation

Conglomerate Reaps Benefits of Open Innovation

John Keells PLC, Sri Lanka
Let's say you are a company or organization that wants to know what is going to be the next biggest thing or in which direction your industry is heading, what can you do? Sure you can do your own rea...
Open Innovation Contest Yields Eye Tracking Sticky Smartphone

Open Innovation Contest Yields Eye Tracking Sticky Smartphone

ZTE Corporation, China
Involving customers in the creation and delivery of products can be a cost-effective and faster way of meeting insatiable consumer demand for continual innovation. After all, customers know their fav...
Addressing the Water Crisis through Open Innovation Approaches

Addressing the Water Crisis through Open Innovation Approaches

Embassy of Sweden in Hanoi, Viet Nam
For many years, the world has been in the midst of a global water crisis. According to the World Health Organization, 663 million people (1 in 10) lack access to safe water, and by 2025 two thirds of...
Ireland’s First Ever Energy Hackathon Uncovers Bright Energy Ideas

Ireland’s First Ever Energy Hackathon Uncovers Bright Energy Ideas

Electricity Supply Board, Ireland
While complex issues cannot be solved overnight, open innovation events such as hackathons can bring new technologies, new ideas and diverse talents together, resulting in the emergence of novel and p...

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