Open Innovation
SUCCESS STORIES

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 Innovates

Open Innovation Challenge Helps to Change the Way a UK Company Innovates

Red Ninja, United Kingdom
Big 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...
Hackathon to Help Refugees

Hackathon to Help Refugees

U.S. Embassy in Ireland, Ireland
The 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...
Global Challenge Uncovers Intelligent Lighting Solutions for the Home

Global Challenge Uncovers Intelligent Lighting Solutions for the Home

Make Magazine, United States
An 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
Open Innovation Contest Yields Innovative Automotive Solutions

Open Innovation Contest Yields Innovative Automotive Solutions

MI Innovation Alliance/SAE International/NextEnergy, United States
Open 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
Open Innovation Gives Graphene Startup a Major Boost

Open Innovation Gives Graphene Startup a Major Boost

Graphenea, Spain
Graphene 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...
Cutting-Edge Ideas Win Healthcare Open Innovation Challenge

Cutting-Edge Ideas Win Healthcare Open Innovation Challenge

American Medical Association, United States
Like 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...
Open Innovation Car Contest Rewards Novel Concepts

Open Innovation Car Contest Rewards Novel Concepts

Valeo, France
The 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...
Insurance Challenge Provides Low-Risk Platform for Innovation

Insurance Challenge Provides Low-Risk Platform for Innovation

ACORD, United States
The 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...
Searching for Sporting Innovations through Hackathons

Searching for Sporting Innovations through Hackathons

Manchester City Football Club, United Kingdom
Manchester 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...
Students Solving Global Problems via Open Innovation Challenges

Students Solving Global Problems via Open Innovation Challenges

The Global STEM Alliance, United States
Our 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...
Novel Ideas to Tackle a Seaside Resort's Challenges

Novel Ideas to Tackle a Seaside Resort's Challenges

Brighton and Hove City Council, United Kingdom
Through 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...
Open Innovation Contest Tackles Autism Housing Problems

Open Innovation Contest Tackles Autism Housing Problems

Autism Speaks, United States
Currently, 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
Open Innovation gives Mars Research a Stellar Boost

Open Innovation gives Mars Research a Stellar Boost

NASA, United States
Mars 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...
Open Innovation Partnership Leads to Novel Freight Container Device

Open Innovation Partnership Leads to Novel Freight Container Device

IBM Denmark, Denmark
IBM 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...
Open Innovation for a Sustainable Environment

Open Innovation for a Sustainable Environment

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), New Zealand
Open 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...
Open Innovation Contest Yields Ideas for the Greater Good

Open Innovation Contest Yields Ideas for the Greater Good

World Bank Group/Wharton School of Business, United States
Poverty 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...
Improving the Taxpayer Experience with the Crowd

Improving the Taxpayer Experience with the Crowd

Internal Revenue Service (IRS), United States
In 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...
Shaping the Future of Plastics with Open Innovation

Shaping the Future of Plastics with Open Innovation

Perstorp, Sweden
To 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...
Philips Finds New Cooking Product Via Open Innovation

Philips Finds New Cooking Product Via Open Innovation

Philips, Netherlands
Product 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...
The World’s First Crowdsourced Singing Voice

The World’s First Crowdsourced Singing Voice

Tele2, Sweden
Whether 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...
Open Innovation Boost for Banking Apps

Open Innovation Boost for Banking Apps

BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria), Spain
Multinational 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...
Big Data Contest Generates Big Ideas

Big Data Contest Generates Big Ideas

Splunk Inc., United States
The 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...
Open Innovation Partnership Leads to Novel Packaging Solution

Open Innovation Partnership Leads to Novel Packaging Solution

Segers and Balcaen, Belgium
Many 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...
Urban Issues Solved by Big Data Challenges

Urban Issues Solved by Big Data Challenges

UN Global Pulse, South Korea
In 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
Open Innovation Search for Medical App Innovations

Open Innovation Search for Medical App Innovations

Medica, France
Crowdsourcing 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...
Mission Accomplished: Crowdsourcing Contest Beams Up New Spacecraft

Mission Accomplished: Crowdsourcing Contest Beams Up New Spacecraft

National Space Society, United States
The 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...
Open Innovation Boost to Start-Ups in Africa

Open Innovation Boost to Start-Ups in Africa

Orange, France
In 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...
Innovating the Future of TV with the Crowd

Innovating the Future of TV with the Crowd

AppLovin Corporation, United States
The 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...
Crowdsource Contest Winner Could Transform How Heart Disease is Diagnosed

Crowdsource Contest Winner Could Transform How Heart Disease is Diagnosed

National Institutes of Health, United States
According 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...
Novel Blood Test Wins Open Innovation Challenge in India

Novel Blood Test Wins Open Innovation Challenge in India

GE India Technology Center, India
The <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...
Crowdsourcing Transit Apps for an Improved Travel Experience

Crowdsourcing Transit Apps for an Improved Travel Experience

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), United States
With 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
Crowdsourcing Campaign Yields Innovative Building Technologies

Crowdsourcing Campaign Yields Innovative Building Technologies

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
The 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...
Healthcare Innovation Challenge Selects Innovative Walking Cane

Healthcare Innovation Challenge Selects Innovative Walking Cane

Rite Aid, United States
Nobody 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...
Open Innovation Search for Cutting-Edge Counter Terrorism Technologies

Open Innovation Search for Cutting-Edge Counter Terrorism Technologies

Novel audio intelligence technology wins open innovation contest for solutions to combat terrorism., United States
Terrorism 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...
Arla’s Open Innovation Challenge for New Ways to Drive the Future of Dairy

Arla’s Open Innovation Challenge for New Ways to Drive the Future of Dairy

Arla, Denmark
In 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...
Open Innovation Challenge to Reduce Water Use in Oil Production

Open Innovation Challenge to Reduce Water Use in Oil Production

GE and Statoil, Norway
Concerned 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...
Crowdsourcing Brilliant Student App Ideas

Crowdsourcing Brilliant Student App Ideas

Google, United States
The 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...
Crowdsourcing Challenge to Commercialize Medical Inventions

Crowdsourcing Challenge to Commercialize Medical Inventions

National Institutes of Health, United States
In 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...
Mystery Star Found by Crowdsourcing Project

Mystery Star Found by Crowdsourcing Project

Zooniverse, United Kingdom
While 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...
Crowdsourcing Success in Boston

Crowdsourcing Success in Boston

City of Boston, United States
The 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...
Cider Maker Crowdsources Apples from the Public

Cider Maker Crowdsources Apples from the Public

Thistly Cross, United Kingdom
Every 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...
How Facebook Crowdsources Internal Innovation

How Facebook Crowdsources Internal Innovation

Facebook, United States
No 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...
Carlsberg’s Crowdsourcing Contest for Green Beer Solutions

Carlsberg’s Crowdsourcing Contest for Green Beer Solutions

Carlsberg, Denmark
When 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...
Crowdsourcing Project to Design New Museum Exhibition

Crowdsourcing Project to Design New Museum Exhibition

Chicago History Museum, United States
Crowdsourcing 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.

"Innovation Challenges:" Do They Matter?

Scripps Innovation Challenge, United States
Colleges, 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...
Crowdsourcing Valuable Consumer Insights for Car Financial Services

Crowdsourcing Valuable Consumer Insights for Car Financial Services

Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, United States
There 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...
Apps in Space Crowdsourcing Challenge

Apps in Space Crowdsourcing Challenge

NASA, United States
For 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...
Unilever’s Global Crowdsourcing Quest to Solve Sustainability Challenges

Unilever’s Global Crowdsourcing Quest to Solve Sustainability Challenges

Unilever, Netherlands
In 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...
Crowdsourcing to Improve Rare Disease Research

Crowdsourcing to Improve Rare Disease Research

Rare Genomics Institute, United States
Rare 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),...
Brand Boosting Success with Crowdsourcing

Brand Boosting Success with Crowdsourcing

BA Holidays, United Kingdom
British 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...
Novel Solar Panel Technology Wins Crowdsourcing Contest

Novel Solar Panel Technology Wins Crowdsourcing Contest

SunSaluter, United States
Climate 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...
How the Crowd is Giving Formula One Technology a Boost

How the Crowd is Giving Formula One Technology a Boost

Formula One/Tata Communicatations, India
Formula 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...
Crowdsourcing Contest to Discover Clinical Trial Innovations

Crowdsourcing Contest to Discover Clinical Trial Innovations

Bonnie J. Addorio Lung Cancer Foundation/Free to Breathe, United States
Cancer 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
Car Mechanic Invents Device to Ease Difficult Childbirths

Car Mechanic Invents Device to Ease Difficult Childbirths

Odon Device, Argentina
Prolonged 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...
Open Innovation Call to Tackle a Big Killer

Open Innovation Call to Tackle a Big Killer

Department of Health and Human Services/deBeaumont Foundation, United States
In 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...
Crowdsourcing Charles Darwin’s Experiment on Emotion

Crowdsourcing Charles Darwin’s Experiment on Emotion

Darwin Correspondence Project, United Kingdom
In 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...
Crowdsourcing Discussions in the UK Parliament

Crowdsourcing Discussions in the UK Parliament

The Labour Party, United Kingdom
Every 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...
Open Innovation versus Nuisance Robot Calls

Open Innovation versus Nuisance Robot Calls

Federal Trade Commission, United States
It 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...
Crowdsourcing Better Disaster Preparation Solutions

Crowdsourcing Better Disaster Preparation Solutions

Solution Search, United States
In 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...
How Crowdsourcing is Helping Blind People to See

How Crowdsourcing is Helping Blind People to See

Be My Eyes, Denmark
The 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
Creating New Wines with the Crowd

Creating New Wines with the Crowd

Columbia Crest/La Crema Winery, United States
Crowdsourcing 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...
Crowdsourcing Libary Tool Challenges London Residents to Make Decisions

Crowdsourcing Libary Tool Challenges London Residents to Make Decisions

London Borough of Lambeth/White October, United Kingdom
Crowdsourcing 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
Crowdsourced Experimentation with the British Library’s Collections

Crowdsourced Experimentation with the British Library’s Collections

The British Library, United Kingdom
In 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
Open Innovation Search for a Green Pump for India

Open Innovation Search for a Green Pump for India

Greenpeace, India
The 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...
Tapping the World’s Smarts for a Novel Shoe Design

Tapping the World’s Smarts for a Novel Shoe Design

Quicksilver, Inc, United States
The 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...
Crowdsourcing and Bug Bounties Bolster Online Security

Crowdsourcing and Bug Bounties Bolster Online Security

United Airlines, United States
Software 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...
Open Innovation Boost to Space Research and Global Issues

Open Innovation Boost to Space Research and Global Issues

NASA, United States
Every 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...
Innovative Banking Idea Courtesy of the Crowd

Innovative Banking Idea Courtesy of the Crowd

BankMobile, United States
Consumers 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...
19th-Century Contests for Ideas to Prevent Premature Burial

19th-Century Contests for Ideas to Prevent Premature Burial

Various, France
During 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...
Crowdsourcing New Chocolate Treats

Crowdsourcing New Chocolate Treats

Nestlé, Switzerland
Open 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...
Children Trying to Make the Impossible Possible

Children Trying to Make the Impossible Possible

X Prize Foundation, United States
The 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...
Google Taps the Crowd for Novel Browser Extensions

Google Taps the Crowd for Novel Browser Extensions

Google, United States
Time 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...
Chocolate Bar Inspiration with the Crowd

Chocolate Bar Inspiration with the Crowd

Nestlé, Switzerland
The 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...
Driving Innovation Forward with Crowdsourcing

Driving Innovation Forward with Crowdsourcing

Midtown Alliance, Atlanta and others, United States
The 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
Children Imagine the Cars of the Future

Children Imagine the Cars of the Future

Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan
Einstein 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...
Crowdsourcing Inspiration from the Sole

Crowdsourcing Inspiration from the Sole

Fluevog, Canada
John 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...
Brilliant Minds Solve GE Aviation Open Innovation Challenges

Brilliant Minds Solve GE Aviation Open Innovation Challenges

General Electric, United States
No 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...
Streamlining Drug Discovery through Open Innovation

Streamlining Drug Discovery through Open Innovation

Merck & Co., United States
Bringing 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...
How the Crowd is Helping to Combat the Ebola Threat

How the Crowd is Helping to Combat the Ebola Threat

United States Agency for International Development (USAID), United States
The 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...
Visionary Ideas to Change the World

Visionary Ideas to Change the World

Verizon, United States
Broadband 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...
Top Marks for School Report Card Open Innovation Contest

Top Marks for School Report Card Open Innovation Contest

The Foundation for Excellence in Education, United States
Crowdsourcing 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
Digging Deeper into History by Crowdsourcing Britain’s Bronze Age Past

Digging Deeper into History by Crowdsourcing Britain’s Bronze Age Past

The British Museum, United Kingdom
The 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...
Kiss My App Contest for Healthcare Innovations

Kiss My App Contest for Healthcare Innovations

William Osler Health System, Canada
The 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...
Wake Up and Smell the Crowdsourced Coffee Grinder

Wake Up and Smell the Crowdsourced Coffee Grinder

Hand Ground, United States
For 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...
Huggies Diapers Nurture Crowd Innovations

Huggies Diapers Nurture Crowd Innovations

Kimberly-Clark, United States
Nearly 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...
Freezeway Skate Route Through Edmonton for Commuters

Freezeway Skate Route Through Edmonton for Commuters

The Center for Outdoor Living Design, Canada
Competitions 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,...
Crowdsourcing the Work of a Great British Social Reformer

Crowdsourcing the Work of a Great British Social Reformer

University College London, United Kingdom
There 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...
Crowdsourcing and Improving Cancer Care

Crowdsourcing and Improving Cancer Care

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the National Cancer Institute, United States
For 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...
The Future of Chocolate in a Digital World

The Future of Chocolate in a Digital World

The Hershey Company, United States
Open 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...
Revolutionary Voice Recognition Software Wins Philips Open Innovation Contest

Revolutionary Voice Recognition Software Wins Philips Open Innovation Contest

Philips, United States
According 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...
Students Get into the Open Innovation Habit

Students Get into the Open Innovation Habit

Verizon Communications, United States
Crowdsourcing 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...
Pasta Company Serves Novel Open Innovation Contest

Pasta Company Serves Novel Open Innovation Contest

Barilla, Italy
Crowdsourcing 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...
Open Innovation Solutions to Get the World Moving

Open Innovation Solutions to Get the World Moving

Ford Motor Company, United States
Whether 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...
Crowdsourcing Contest Leads to a Global Soccer Anthem

Crowdsourcing Contest Leads to a Global Soccer Anthem

Sony Corporation, Japan
Disruptive 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...
Formula 1 Stays at the Cutting Edge with Crowdsourcing

Formula 1 Stays at the Cutting Edge with Crowdsourcing

Formula 1, United Kingdom
Formula 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...
Crowdsourcing Contest to Shape a Better Future

Crowdsourcing Contest to Shape a Better Future

The Coca-Cola Company, United States
The 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...
Open Innovation Community Create Novel Products

Open Innovation Community Create Novel Products

FirstBuild, United States
When 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...
Open Innovation Advances the Prediction and Detection of Epileptic Seizures

Open Innovation Advances the Prediction and Detection of Epileptic Seizures

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), United States
Tens 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...
Crowdsourcing Changes in Healthcare

Crowdsourcing Changes in Healthcare

Target, United States
Thanks 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....
Innovation and Creativity Shine at Vodaphone’s App Star Challenge

Innovation and Creativity Shine at Vodaphone’s App Star Challenge

Vodaphone, Kenya
Open 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...

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