Open innovation success stories from a broad range of companies, and a diverse range of open innovation intermediaries.
Open Innovation Challenge Helps to Change the Way a UK Company InnovatesRed Ninja, United KingdomBig cities are exciting and colorful places to live. They are filled with opportunities, history and are alive with cultural experiences. But they are not without their problems. Cities are congeste... |
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Hackathon to Help RefugeesU.S. Embassy in Ireland, IrelandThe global refugee crisis is one of the most pressing social problems of our time. Millions of people have abandoned their homes because of war, conflict and persecution in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq a... |
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Global Challenge Uncovers Intelligent Lighting Solutions for the HomeMake Magazine, United StatesAn individual's imagination is truly a powerful thing. But why settle for one person's ideas and flights of fancy when you can bring together the imaginations of lots of inventive and creative minds |
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Open Innovation Contest Yields Innovative Automotive SolutionsMI Innovation Alliance/SAE International/NextEnergy, United StatesOpen innovation challenges provide a shortcut to the lengthy process inherent in large organizations of getting an idea off the drawing board and into the marketplace. They can bring new innovations |
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Open Innovation Gives Graphene Startup a Major BoostGraphenea, SpainGraphene doesn't exist in nature. As the name suggests, this new nanotechnology material is extracted from graphite, which is used in pencils. It is formed of a single layer of carbon atoms and is th... |
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Cutting-Edge Ideas Win Healthcare Open Innovation ChallengeAmerican Medical Association, United StatesLike the software, automobile, agriculture and telecommunications industries, the healthcare and medical technology industry are also engaging with open innovation initiatives. These are opening the d... |
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Open Innovation Car Contest Rewards Novel ConceptsValeo, FranceThe field of automotive technology never stops as the auto industry is constantly reinventing its offerings, bringing us new technologies that enhance fuel efficiency, our safety and the driving exper... |
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Insurance Challenge Provides Low-Risk Platform for InnovationACORD, United StatesThe insurance industry, like many others needs to innovate for a multitude of reasons - to do things better, for economic growth, for survival, for better returns, to take advantage of opportunities a... |
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Searching for Sporting Innovations through HackathonsManchester City Football Club, United KingdomManchester City Football Club (MCFC) in the UK is one of the biggest soccer sides in the world and like many top flight sporting clubs, a commercial powerhouse. In an effort to innovate faster and b... |
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Students Solving Global Problems via Open Innovation ChallengesThe Global STEM Alliance, United StatesOur world is beset by huge problems, such as bio-security, health in poor countries, land use reform and climate change. There are no easy answers, but one thing is for sure and that is that great mi... |
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Novel Ideas to Tackle a Seaside Resort's ChallengesBrighton and Hove City Council, United KingdomThrough open innovation projects, citizens can make a big difference to their towns, cities, villages and neighborhoods. Governments tap into a citizenry's collective intelligence to tackle proble... |
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Open Innovation Contest Tackles Autism Housing ProblemsAutism Speaks, United StatesCurrently, the majority of adults with autism live with their parents because there are few other options available to them. But what will they do and how will they live when their aged folks are no |
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Open Innovation gives Mars Research a Stellar BoostNASA, United StatesMars is definitely a hot topic on the space agenda. Currently, NASA is planning to launch a rover mission in 2020 and its first manned mission to the red planet is slated for the 2030s. The trips wi... |
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Open Innovation Partnership Leads to Novel Freight Container DeviceIBM Denmark, DenmarkIBM Denmark is a Danish technology and consulting company that delivers IT services and markets hardware and software products that in the main are developed by its research and development laboratori... |
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Open Innovation for a Sustainable EnvironmentWorld Wildlife Fund (WWF), New ZealandOpen innovation has given NGOs and charities new ways to galvanize their large numbers of supporters. Through crowdsourcing competitions and other initiatives they can harness collective brainpower t... |
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Open Innovation Contest Yields Ideas for the Greater GoodWorld Bank Group/Wharton School of Business, United StatesPoverty is a global problem that is going to need a lot of very smart brains from all over the world to find solutions. Ending poverty in all its forms everywhere by 2030 is one of the UN's 17 Sustai... |
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Improving the Taxpayer Experience with the CrowdInternal Revenue Service (IRS), United StatesIn 2016, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the United States, launched its first ever Tax Design Challenge. This was a crowdsourcing contest to encourage breakthrough ideas to improve the taxpayer... |
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Shaping the Future of Plastics with Open InnovationPerstorp, SwedenTo celebrate the 40th anniversary of its Capa™ caprolactone thermoplastic materials, specialty chemicals company Perstorp launched a global open innovation challenge. The purpose was to generate new... |
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Philips Finds New Cooking Product Via Open InnovationPhilips, NetherlandsProduct managers don't always have to rely on internal R&D to come up with new products. Open innovation is becoming a standard approach for many companies as they look to external sources for new id... |
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The World’s First Crowdsourced Singing VoiceTele2, SwedenWhether for fun, to create new designs, logos and flavors or to come up with groundbreaking products and innovations, crowdsourcing has found success in many arenas. Initiatives demonstrate how diver... |
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Open Innovation Boost for Banking AppsBBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria), SpainMultinational Spanish banking group BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) is so convinced by the potential of big data that from time to time it enlists the crowd to help it discover revolutionary ne... |
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Big Data Contest Generates Big IdeasSplunk Inc., United StatesThe amount of big data in the world is growing exponentially and with it comes a wealth of opportunities to use information in novel ways. Open innovation is one of the means by which companies an... |
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Open Innovation Partnership Leads to Novel Packaging SolutionSegers and Balcaen, BelgiumMany companies are faced with tough conditions in their markets: a volatile economic climate, the emergence of new players selling cheaper products and services, new regulations and so on. They all c... |
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Urban Issues Solved by Big Data ChallengesUN Global Pulse, South KoreaIn this day and age, where so much information can be gleaned from both structured and unstructured digital data, we are increasingly seeing problems solved by open innovation approaches, such as big |
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Open Innovation Search for Medical App InnovationsMedica, FranceCrowdsourcing app contests are a good way for developers and innovators to get exposure for their work and for companies and organisations to solve problems and/or create new products. They can yield... |
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Mission Accomplished: Crowdsourcing Contest Beams Up New SpacecraftNational Space Society, United StatesThe National Space Society started another space race when it launched its Enterprise in Space (EIS) crowdsourcing competition to turn science fiction into science fact. Participants were asked to d... |
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Open Innovation Boost to Start-Ups in AfricaOrange, FranceIn Africa as in many other parts of the world, the start-up and entrepreneurial community is thriving and alive with novel ideas. However, getting concepts to market is hardly ever a straightforward a... |
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Innovating the Future of TV with the CrowdAppLovin Corporation, United StatesThe popularity of apps is down to a number of factors, such as their utility, low prices and range of software programs on offer. There appears to be an app for just about everything, from monitoring... |
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Crowdsource Contest Winner Could Transform How Heart Disease is DiagnosedNational Institutes of Health, United StatesAccording to the World health Organization (WHO), cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the number one cause of death around the world. In the U.S. alone, 1,500 people are diagnosed with heart failure e... |
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Novel Blood Test Wins Open Innovation Challenge in IndiaGE India Technology Center, IndiaThe <a href="http://www.ge.com/in/edisonchallenge" target=_blank>GE Edison Challenge</a> is an open innovation contest for university students in India, organized by the GE India Technology Center (GE... |
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Crowdsourcing Transit Apps for an Improved Travel ExperienceNew York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), United StatesWith advancements in digital technology, everybody is now free to help companies and organizations to innovate. Vast reams of their data that might otherwise lie dormant can be used as the basis for |
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Crowdsourcing Campaign Yields Innovative Building TechnologiesOak Ridge National Laboratory, United StatesThe Problem It has been estimated that buildings are responsible for more than 40 percent of global energy use. Therefore, making them more energy efficient can be a significant contribution to ta... |
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Healthcare Innovation Challenge Selects Innovative Walking CaneRite Aid, United StatesNobody knows where the next medical and healthcare innovation will come from: could it be dreamed up by R&D departments, created in laboratories or designed in somebody's shed? One way to access pote... |
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Open Innovation Search for Cutting-Edge Counter Terrorism TechnologiesNovel audio intelligence technology wins open innovation contest for solutions to combat terrorism., United StatesTerrorism is a complex and constantly evolving threat as those who seek to do harm develop more sophisticated modes of attack. In this ever-changing environment, the tools and approaches to detect, p... |
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Arla’s Open Innovation Challenge for New Ways to Drive the Future of DairyArla, DenmarkIn recent years, farmer owned global dairy company Arla has been integrating open innovation into a number of it processes to help it create the future of dairy. One such initiative is the Arla Food I... |
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Open Innovation Challenge to Reduce Water Use in Oil ProductionGE and Statoil, NorwayConcerned that water management is one of the greatest challenges facing the onshore oil and gas industry, GE and Norwegian multinational Statoil launched an open innovation challenge contest for solu... |
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Crowdsourcing Brilliant Student App IdeasGoogle, United StatesThe Google Admob Student App Challenge is a crowdsourcing contest organized by Google for great app ideas. It is open to students all over the world, and bills itself as "not your average app building... |
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Crowdsourcing Challenge to Commercialize Medical InventionsNational Institutes of Health, United StatesIn August 2014, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the USA launched a crowdsourcing competition in which they didn't want a single idea to be submitted. That's because they already had lots o... |
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Mystery Star Found by Crowdsourcing ProjectZooniverse, United KingdomWhile brilliant scientific research is carried out by scientists in labs all over the world, it is not the only way that wonderful new discoveries are made. Increasingly, citizen scientists are addin... |
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Crowdsourcing Success in BostonCity of Boston, United StatesThe city of Boston has embraced crowdsourcing and open innovation, having organized numerous contests and initiatives in recent years. In February 2014, the mayor put out a call to residents to hel... |
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Cider Maker Crowdsources Apples from the PublicThistly Cross, United KingdomEvery year Scottish cider maker Thistly Cross launches an unusual crowdsourcing exercise urging the public to give them any surplus apples they might have. The drink’s increasing popularity means t... |
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How Facebook Crowdsources Internal InnovationFacebook, United StatesNo one person in a large, complex organisation has all the ideas and answers. Crowdsourcing innovation from employee get-togethers and online communities can be an efficient way to turn light-bulb mo... |
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Carlsberg’s Crowdsourcing Contest for Green Beer SolutionsCarlsberg, DenmarkWhen Carlsberg was looking for new ideas to make its beer more sustainable it turned to the general public across the world. The Danish brewing company launched its “Cheers to Green Ideas” crowdso... |
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Crowdsourcing Project to Design New Museum ExhibitionChicago History Museum, United StatesCrowdsourcing design and creation contests have long been deployed by consumer facing companies to come up with new iterations of products and fresh flavors, and to uncover more about consumer needs. |
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"Innovation Challenges:" Do They Matter?Scripps Innovation Challenge, United StatesColleges, corporations, and foundations are pumping serious money into "innovation challenges," enlisting the very young to discover the next big thing. Here's how it works. Teams tackle a challe... |
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Crowdsourcing Valuable Consumer Insights for Car Financial ServicesMercedes-Benz Financial Services, United StatesThere are many reasons why calling the crowd is a good idea. Among them are insights into possible future trends and design concepts. Looking outside your immediate environment can provide fresh ins... |
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Apps in Space Crowdsourcing ChallengeNASA, United StatesFor many years now NASA has been reaching out to the crowd to help it come up with innovative designs and technologies. The space agency recognizes the power of engaging an interested group of people... |
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Unilever’s Global Crowdsourcing Quest to Solve Sustainability ChallengesUnilever, NetherlandsIn June 2015, Unilever's Foundry platform launched a global crowdsourcing community to find new and innovative ways of tackling sustainability problems. Foundry IDEAS will provide a platform for cons... |
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Crowdsourcing to Improve Rare Disease ResearchRare Genomics Institute, United StatesRare diseases affect 300 million people across the world, yet less than five percent of the 7,000 known rare diseases have approved treatments. That’s according to the Rare Genomics Institute (RGI),... |
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Brand Boosting Success with CrowdsourcingBA Holidays, United KingdomBritish Airways lays claim to be one of the first travel brands to crowdsource ideas with customers and the general public. In 2011, the airline asked the crowd to help it design and choose new men... |
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Novel Solar Panel Technology Wins Crowdsourcing ContestSunSaluter, United StatesClimate change is one of the trickiest problems facing the planet and requires lots of solutions. Through the internet and crowdsourcing, tapping the wisdom of the masses for possible answers is easy... |
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How the Crowd is Giving Formula One Technology a BoostFormula One/Tata Communicatations, IndiaFormula 1 is the world's premier motor sport for the skill and bravery of its drivers and the brilliance of its technology. In recent years, the motor sport has been engaging fans and other members o... |
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Crowdsourcing Contest to Discover Clinical Trial InnovationsBonnie J. Addorio Lung Cancer Foundation/Free to Breathe, United StatesCancer is one of the world's biggest killers and consequently the focus of a colossal amount of research activity. Clinical trials are the best way to discover what is the best kind of treatment for |
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Car Mechanic Invents Device to Ease Difficult ChildbirthsOdon Device, ArgentinaProlonged second stage labor can cause a host of complications for mother and child, including maternal hemorrhaging and fetal asphyxiation. Delivery options in these situations include a caesarean s... |
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Open Innovation Call to Tackle a Big KillerDepartment of Health and Human Services/deBeaumont Foundation, United StatesIn many of the world's developed countries, people are fat and getting fatter. Rich western diets and a couch potato lifestyle conspire to create shirt button-popping girths. Despite many public hea... |
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Crowdsourcing Charles Darwin’s Experiment on EmotionDarwin Correspondence Project, United KingdomIn addition to his revolutionary work on evolution, Charles Darwin also busied himself with research in numerous other fields. One of his lesser-known experiments was on emotion. The great 19th-centu... |
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Crowdsourcing Discussions in the UK ParliamentThe Labour Party, United KingdomEvery Wednesday at noon when the UK parliament is in session, the prime minister of the day takes questions from members of the House of Commons. This constitutional convention is known as Prime Mini... |
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Open Innovation versus Nuisance Robot CallsFederal Trade Commission, United StatesIt doesn't matter how much they anger and frustrate, the robocalls still keep coming. These are the automated phone calls that consumers and homeowners find intrusive and a nuisance. Sometimes they a... |
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Crowdsourcing Better Disaster Preparation SolutionsSolution Search, United StatesIn 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the United States with devastating effects. Nearly 2,000 people were killed and more than 300,000 homes were destroyed. As well as being one of the deadliest hu... |
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How Crowdsourcing is Helping Blind People to SeeBe My Eyes, DenmarkThe crowd is helping to make life easier for visually impaired people through a neat non-profit app called <a href="http://www.bemyeyes.org/" target=_blank>Be My Eyes</a>. The software program pairs |
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Creating New Wines with the CrowdColumbia Crest/La Crema Winery, United StatesCrowdsourcing has been used to create new flavors and recipes for crisps, cakes, ice creams and beer among other food and drink items. Added to that list in 2014 was wine. With the rise of open inno... |
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Crowdsourcing Libary Tool Challenges London Residents to Make DecisionsLondon Borough of Lambeth/White October, United KingdomCrowdsourcing initiatives are allowing members of the public to have more of a say in matters affecting their communities. Through contests, games, votes and web portals, they can directly influence |
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Crowdsourced Experimentation with the British Library’s CollectionsThe British Library, United KingdomIn large and small public and private bodies all over the world, reams of data are created on a continual basis, used and then stored away in digital archives, sometimes never seeing the light of day |
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Open Innovation Search for a Green Pump for IndiaGreenpeace, IndiaThe increasing success of open innovation in many firms has led to the adoption of its principles by some non-profit organisations as a way to solve pressing problems. Emphasizing the use of externa... |
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Tapping the World’s Smarts for a Novel Shoe DesignQuicksilver, Inc, United StatesThe demand for new products, designs and fashions is insatiable as hungry consumers crave novelty. Companies realize they have to keep their product pipeline full and pumping out new items, less thei... |
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Crowdsourcing and Bug Bounties Bolster Online SecurityUnited Airlines, United StatesSoftware security is a huge issue for many organizations. They are engaged in an evolutionary arms race with cyber criminals. As security systems increase in their levels of complexity and sophistic... |
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Open Innovation Boost to Space Research and Global IssuesNASA, United StatesEvery year, NASA and several other space agencies enlist the help of the crowd in a mass collaboration event to produce open-source solutions for future space missions. The initiative also hopes to s... |
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Innovative Banking Idea Courtesy of the CrowdBankMobile, United StatesConsumers can be a fabulous source of ideas and creative thinking as companies far too numerous to mention have discovered. One of them is BankMobile, a division of Customers Bank. The financial ins... |
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19th-Century Contests for Ideas to Prevent Premature BurialVarious, FranceDuring the 18th and 19th centuries, many people were scared to death of being buried alive, namely by being pronounced dead and put six feet under when they were actually in a coma. So widespread wer... |
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Crowdsourcing New Chocolate TreatsNestlé, SwitzerlandOpen innovation comes in many forms, offering enterprises and organizations myriad ways of tapping the intellectual smarts of the crowd. For example, there is technology scouting, R&D problem solving... |
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Children Trying to Make the Impossible PossibleX Prize Foundation, United StatesThe X Prize Foundation has given us some of the most thrilling innovation contests of recent times, leading to groundbreaking inventions in numerous fields, such as spaceflight, lunar research and oil... |
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Google Taps the Crowd for Novel Browser ExtensionsGoogle, United StatesTime and again crowdsourcing has been used to solve problems, generate bold new thinking and deliver novel products. Part of its success comes from the diverse backgrounds of solvers, who are sometim... |
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Chocolate Bar Inspiration with the CrowdNestlé, SwitzerlandThe volume of ideation contests is one illustration of the increasing popularity of open innovation. Companies are turning to crowds for a number of reasons, not only to come up with product innovatio... |
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Driving Innovation Forward with CrowdsourcingMidtown Alliance, Atlanta and others, United StatesThe city of Atlanta, Georgia was on the hunt for novel designs to revitalize two of its bridges. To access a diverse talent pool and to find greater levels of inspiration, it decided to reach out to |
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Children Imagine the Cars of the FutureToyota Motor Corporation, JapanEinstein was always ready with a snappy and sometimes profound quote to get us all thinking. Talking about ideas and creativity he once said, "To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike i... |
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Crowdsourcing Inspiration from the SoleFluevog, CanadaJohn Fluevog Shoes doesn't just rely on its designers and founder John Fluevog to come up with exciting new creations. The Vancouver, British Columbia-based company also welcomes contributions from t... |
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Brilliant Minds Solve GE Aviation Open Innovation ChallengesGeneral Electric, United StatesNo stranger to open innovation to solve technical problems, the General Electric Company (GE) launched two aviation innovation challenges in early 2015. The global company sought solutions that would... |
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Streamlining Drug Discovery through Open InnovationMerck & Co., United StatesBringing a new drug to market is a long, costly and expensive. The traditional industry approaches involve testing hundreds of thousands of compounds against potential disease mechanisms. Despite th... |
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How the Crowd is Helping to Combat the Ebola ThreatUnited States Agency for International Development (USAID), United StatesThe Ebola outbreak in West Africa first made the news headlines in March 2014. It spread rapidly and within a few months had killed many more people than previous outbreaks of the viral hemorrhagic f... |
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Visionary Ideas to Change the WorldVerizon, United StatesBroadband and telecommunications company Verizon created a $10 million challenge for smart brains to come up with ground breaking concepts in the healthcare, education, transportation and sustainabili... |
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Top Marks for School Report Card Open Innovation ContestThe Foundation for Excellence in Education, United StatesCrowdsourcing is nothing new. Humankind has been pooling its brainpower ever since we first rubbed sticks together to create fire. What has changed in recent years is that the internet has provided |
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Digging Deeper into History by Crowdsourcing Britain’s Bronze Age PastThe British Museum, United KingdomThe handwritten index cards were once state of the art when curators at the British Museum were cataloging their collections in the early 19th century. But in today’s globally connected digital wor... |
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Kiss My App Contest for Healthcare InnovationsWilliam Osler Health System, CanadaThe amusingly titled "Kiss My App" contest is a crowdsourcing initiative organized by the William Osler Health System, a large community hospital in Ontario. The student only crowdsourcing contest i... |
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Wake Up and Smell the Crowdsourced Coffee GrinderHand Ground, United StatesFor many people, coffee is a delicious and stimulating start to the day, but there is a continual gripe of lovers of specialty coffees. Namely, the difficulty of achieving a consistent grind to unlea... |
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Huggies Diapers Nurture Crowd InnovationsKimberly-Clark, United StatesNearly 70 years ago, the disposable diaper was invented by Marion O'Brien, who was dissatisfied with the options available at the time to keep her baby dry. So she invented a product that is now sold... |
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Freezeway Skate Route Through Edmonton for CommutersThe Center for Outdoor Living Design, CanadaCompetitions can be key drivers of innovation, as individuals and teams work for concentrated periods of time to solve a problem. From timepieces and space rockets to architecture and cyber security,... |
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Crowdsourcing the Work of a Great British Social ReformerUniversity College London, United KingdomThere are many reasons why people knuckle down to get involved in open innovation challenges. For example, there is intellectual stimulation, possible financial reward, the chance to be part of someth... |
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Crowdsourcing and Improving Cancer CareThe Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the National Cancer Institute, United StatesFor obvious reasons, we all have a vested interest in healthcare innovations, and one of the many benefits of open innovation is that it has created opportunities for the crowd to contribute. Brillia... |
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The Future of Chocolate in a Digital WorldThe Hershey Company, United StatesOpen innovation is not just about getting solutions to your immediate problems and creating new product innovations. Companies can also brainstorm the crowd to try and work out where their industry i... |
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Revolutionary Voice Recognition Software Wins Philips Open Innovation ContestPhilips, United StatesAccording to research conducted by Philips North America, nearly two-thirds of North Americans consider themselves innovators, with many of them thinking they have dreamed up the 'next big thing'. Wa... |
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Students Get into the Open Innovation HabitVerizon Communications, United StatesCrowdsourcing and collaboration offer huge potential for innovation and solving challenges efficiently and cost-effectively. Today, these are practices that some people are learning while young. T... |
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Pasta Company Serves Novel Open Innovation ContestBarilla, ItalyCrowdsourcing and open innovation have given us a number of food and flavor contests, where brands have reached out to their consumers for new varieties and concepts. Not only do these competitions d... |
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Open Innovation Solutions to Get the World MovingFord Motor Company, United StatesWhether we’re talking about high fuel costs, congested freeways or polluted cities, there are clearly many transport issues across the globe. Ford Motor Company believes that as our world becomes... |
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Crowdsourcing Contest Leads to a Global Soccer AnthemSony Corporation, JapanDisruptive innovations have fundamentally changed the way music is bought, packaged, sold and consumed in recent years. One of the big transformations that is taking place right now, thanks to the in... |
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Formula 1 Stays at the Cutting Edge with CrowdsourcingFormula 1, United KingdomFormula 1 is one of the most technologically advanced sports on the planet, and to stay that way it must always be at the cutting edge. To catalyse the development of the next generation of communica... |
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Crowdsourcing Contest to Shape a Better FutureThe Coca-Cola Company, United StatesThe Coca-Cola Company has long been a supporter of crowdsourcing and open innovation, for example, working with online communities to generate new marketing ideas and content. The soft drinks behemoth... |
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Open Innovation Community Create Novel ProductsFirstBuild, United StatesWhen super smart and creative people work together on challenges and projects, the results can be phenomenal. FirstBuild is an open innovation success story that is going from strength to strength, wh... |
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Open Innovation Advances the Prediction and Detection of Epileptic SeizuresNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), United StatesTens of millions of people around the world are affected by epilepsy, a disorder caused by abnormal electrical activity in the brain. Although therapeutic interventions can do much to alleviate the c... |
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Crowdsourcing Changes in HealthcareTarget, United StatesThanks to the ubiquity of the internet and the speed of modern communications, crowdsourcing contests have become a popular strategy to engage smart brains to invent new products and solve challenges.... |
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Innovation and Creativity Shine at Vodaphone’s App Star ChallengeVodaphone, KenyaOpen innovation and crowdsourcing challenges provide problem solvers with numerous opportunities. Whether or not they win, their talents are given exposure to a wider audience they might not otherwis... |