Open innovation success stories from a broad range of companies, and a diverse range of open innovation intermediaries.
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Free-Flying Space Station Robot Gets Open Innovation HelpNASA, United StatesWhen NASA wants out-of-the-box thinking for its manned and robotic missions it regularly turns to open innovation to attract expertise from far and wide. The space agency harnesses the expertise, inge... |
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How Big Data Can Reduce Football InjuriesSparta Science, United StatesInjuries are a huge problem in American football. A player injury is not only bad news for the individual, but it can also threaten a team's prospects during a season. For example, in 2018 Jimmy Garop... |
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Big Data Boost to US Barbecue Restaurant ChainDickey's Barbecue Pit, United StatesDickey's Barbecue Pit is a network of hundreds of barbecue restaurants across the USA serving slow-cooked barbecue offerings. Aware of the importance of mining and leveraging big data it adopted a sto... |
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Preventing Car Crashes with Big Data AnalysisUS State of Tennesse, United StatesThe figures are truly staggering. According to research conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) 1.35 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes and road traffic injurie... |
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Making Archeological Discoveries with Open InnovationGlobalXplorer, United StatesProfessor Sarah Parcak is a space archeologist and a National Geographic fellow who uses satellite imagery to probe the Earth, analyzing pictures to identify small changes that could signal hidden hum... |
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Open Innovation Initiatives at Abbey Road StudiosAbbey Road Red, United KingdomThe Beatles, Abba, Burt Bacharach, Amy Winehouse and Ed Sheeran are just a handful of the legendary music stars who have recorded in London's Abbey Road. These famous studios have not only been at th... |
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Harnessing the Power of Open Innovation for the Common GoodThe Hague, NetherlandsOpen innovation is an important tool for solving big problems. One of the oft-used approaches is the hackathon model where brilliant minds from diverse backgrounds work for a concentrated period of ti... |
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Big Data Boost for Vehicle Rental CompanyAvis Budget Group, United StatesIn this information age data is a valuable commodity that can help companies grow, make better decisions and improve the way they serve their customers. Leading vehicle renting services company Avis |
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Open Innovation Solution for Plastic Waste ProblemUnilever, United KingdomAll over the world people are generating colossal volumes of plastic trash that ends up littering our oceans, cities and waterways. According to a 2017 study, since the 1950s, 8.3 billion tons of pla... |
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Open Data Innovation to Monitor the Health of TreesThe City of Waterloo, CanadaA civic hackathon is an open innovation concept that has been gaining a lot of traction in recent years. Cities all over the world are sharing data so that developers and other interested parties can |
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Solving Bangalore's Environmental Problems with Open InnovationUrban Development Department of the Government of Karnataka, IndiaBengaluru (also called Bangalore) is the capital of India's southern Karnataka state and one of the country's most successful cities, a modern metropolis that is India's high-tech industry hub. Howeve... |
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Open Innovation Delivers Bot Technology Solution for BusinessHermyz, United StatesFor small businesses the job of keeping the books up to date and tracking payments can be onerous and a huge time drag. Time spent on paperwork could be time spent on running other parts of their busi... |
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P&G Get Their Teeth into Open Innovation with Whitening ProductProcter and Gamble, United StatesProcter & Gamble engages with numerous open innovation tools and approaches to support innovation, following a goal set by the CEO of the company to produce at least 50% of its innovations from extern... |
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Open Innovation Solution for Container Ship ChallengesAntwerp Port Authority, BelgiumA big cause of concern for the container shipping industry is there is no accurate way to predict the estimated time of arrival (ETA) of container ships. Among the reasons why are ETAs not being upda... |
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Big Data Can Transform the Travel IndustryDublin Airport, IrelandBig data is everywhere, a powerful tool that is one of today's most promising new technologies. It can lead to substantial breakthroughs, helping businesses and all manner of organizations to accompli... |
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Space Apps Challenge: An Open Innovation Incubator to Help Nasa Solve ProblemsNASA, United StatesThe 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... |
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Affordable Transportation Network Wins $1 Million Open Innovation PrizeThe Hult Prize, United StatesEvery 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... |
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Building India’s Future with Open InnovationThe Government of India, IndiaTo 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... |
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Accelerating Data Processing During Police InvestigationsThe Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, NetherlandsPolice 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... |
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Leveraging Snow Plow Data to Clear a City’s RoadsSchool of Information Studies at Syracuse University, United StatesEvery 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... |
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Open Innovation Quest to Protect NFL Players from ConcussionNational Football League and others, United StatesFor 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... |
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Open Innovation Tackles Agricultural ChallengesAgri-Tech East, United KingdomAgriculture 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... |
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Crowdsourcing Algorithms to Stop Illegal FishingThe National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office, United StatesIllegal, 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... |
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Big Data Analytics and Landslide PredictionUniversity of Melbourne, AustraliaLandslides 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 |
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Open Innovation Solutions for Hajj SafetySaudi Federation for Cybersecurity, Programming and Drones, Saudi ArabiaEvery 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 |
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Algorithms to Better Predict Epileptic SeizuresUniversity of Melbourne, AustraliaEpilepsy 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... |
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Breakthrough AI Technology as Good as ExpertsMoorfields Eye Hospital/DeepMind, United KingdomA 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 |
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Answering Big Questions about the Universe with Big DataThe Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, NetherlandsWhether 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 |
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Big Data Solutions for French MultinationalAir Liquide, FranceIf 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... |
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Big Data Keeps London MovingTransport for London, United KingdomLike 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... |
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The Rise of Big Data in Detecting Insurance FraudInsurance industry, United StatesInsurance 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... |
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Big Data Solutions for Porsche Driverless TechnologyPorsche, GermanyThe 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... |
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The Big Data Revolution in SoccerThe German national soccer team and others, GermanyIn 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... |
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Using Open Data to Tackle Sustainable Development ChallengesUNESCO, SingaporeWater 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... |
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How AI is Bringing a Paradigm Shift to Brain DisordersUniversity of Bari, ItalyThe 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... |
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How Gatwick Airport is Embracing Big DataGatwick Airport, United KingdomIncreasingly 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,... |
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Big Data Solutions for Public Health IssuesSan Diego State University, United StatesNo 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... |
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Data Analytics to Support Learning and TeachingUniversity of British Columbia, CanadaThe 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... |
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How Big Data is Transforming EducationEducation Sector, United StatesLeveraging 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... |
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Using AI and Deep Learning to Predict MortalityGoogle, 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... |
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Artificial Intelligence Portal for Job OpportunitiesBFM-Edge Business School, MalaysiaThe 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 |
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AI Hackathon leads to Product EnhancementApplaud Solutions, United KingdomAs 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... |
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Rail Industry Makes Tracks with Big DataUnion Pacific, United StatesWith 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... |
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Using Big Data to Find Solutions to the Refugee CrisisUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), SwitzerlandThe 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... |
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Improving the Retail Experience with Big DataA.S. Watson Group, Hong KongOne 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... |
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Turning Raw Data into Models to Improve Aviation Fuel EfficiencyHoneywell International Inc., United StatesAviation 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... |
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Improving Airport Security with Better AlgorithmsDepartment of Homeland Security/Transportation Security Administration, United StatesData 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... |
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Combating Infectious Diseases with Artificial IntelligenceArtificial Intelligence in Medical Epidemiology (AIME), United StatesMany 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 |
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Artificial Intelligence Innovations for EducationOpenEd.ai, United StatesArtificial 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... |
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Using Big Data to Improve London’s Transport NetworkTransport for London, United KingdomLike 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... |
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Royal Navy Search for Novel AI SolutionsMinistry of Defense, United KingdomData 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... |
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Big Data Systems and AI to Cut Electricity BillsUniversity of Queensland, AustraliaArtificial 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... |
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Basketball and Business Data Analytics Solutions for the NBANational Basketball Association, United StatesBig 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... |
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Hasbro Gets New Game Product via Open InnovationHasbro, Inc, United StatesHasbro 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... |
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Open Innovation Search for Healthcare SolutionsHumana Inc., United StatesArtificial 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... |
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Open Innovation is Making an Impact in the Hotel IndustryPark Inn by Radisson, United KingdomHotels 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... |
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Open Innovation for Business Reforms in NigeriaThe Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council, NigeriaOnce 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... |
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Combating Fake News with Open InnovationYale University, United StatesIn 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... |
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Open Innovation Boost for Medication AdherenceNational University of Singapore, SingaporeOpen 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. |
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Open Innovation Provides Sustainable Building SolutionsClimate-KIC, NorwayIn 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... |
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Breakthrough Ice Cream Product via Open InnovationSolo Gelato, IsraelJust 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... |
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Innovative Breakthroughs with Nokia Open Innovation ChallengeNokia, FinlandFor 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... |
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Harnessing New Ideas Through Open InnovationJohn Keells Holdings, Sri LankaIdeas 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 |
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Disruptive Open Innovation Event Yields Novel ADHD Diagnosis ToolreVIVE/TechCrunch, United StatesFor 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... |
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Open Innovation Solutions to the Opioid EpidemicU.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), United StatesOpioid 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... |
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Diagnosing Plant Diseases with Artificial IntelligenceUniversity of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, United StatesFor 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... |
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Mining Big Data for Innovative SolutionsThe European Commission, BelgiumThere 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... |
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Breakthrough Thinking for Hospital Electrical SystemsSchneider Electric, United StatesAs 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... |
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New Lego Play Set via Open InnovationThe Lego Group, DenmarkThe 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.... |
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Open Innovation for the Future of Public TransportationTransport Systems Catapult, United KingdomWhen 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 |
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Open Innovation Approach to Creating Novel Home AppliancesGE Appliances, United StatesCompanies 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... |
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Open Innovation for a Predator-Free New ZealandLandcare Research, New ZealandIn 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 |
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Open Innovation Catalyzes Life-Changing InnovationsVodafone, United StatesMultinational 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... |
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Porsche Open Innovation Contest Aims to Disrupt Car IndustryPorsche, GermanyBlockchain 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... |
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How Open Innovation is Improving Satellite Intelligence AnalysisThe Defense Science and Technology Laboratory, United KingdomIf 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... |
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Open Innovation Tackles Dementia Care ChallengesFacebook/UK Government/HackerNest, CanadaYou 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... |
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Novel Solutions to Infrastructure ProblemsAmerican Society of Civil Engineers, United StatesThere'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... |
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Open Innovation Search for Data-Driven Solutions for the Urban EnvironmentGovernment of the Republic of KoreaThere 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... |
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Open Innovation Solutions for Aging US InfrastructureAssociation of Equipment Manufacturers, United StatesOn 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 |
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Open Innovation Drone Project Reaches for the SkiesDHL, GermanyThere 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... |
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Open Innovation for Vegas Smart City EffortsReadWrite/Amazon Alexa, United StatesLas 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 |
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Open Innovation Boost for Enrollment in Oncology Clinical TrialsBonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, United StatesCancer 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... |
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Leveraging Open Innovation for Climate ResilienceWorld Bank, United StatesInnovations 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... |
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Addressing Flooding Issues through Open InnovationGlasgow City Council/Innovate UK/Climate-KIC, United KingdomGlasgow, 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... |
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Solving Prostate Cancer Challenges with Open InnovationDREAM/Sage Bionetworks, United StatesThe 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... |
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Open innovation Tackles Packaging Industry ChallengesDutch 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... |
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Open Innovation Drives Sustainable Transportation SolutionsThe Youth For Public Transport Foundation, BelgiumThe 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... |
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Open Innovation Builds a House with Big DataHemnet and Tham & Videgård, SwedenSweden 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... |
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An Example of Open Innovation Success with Procter & GambleProcter & Gamble, United StatesOpen 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... |
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DHL Receives Delivery of Novel Solutions via Open innovationDHL, GermanyParcel 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... |
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How Johnson & Johnson are Accelerating Product Development with Open InnovationJohnson & Johnson, United StatesIn 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... |
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Open Innovation Ideas for Smart CitiesKPIT Technologies Limited, IndiaSmart 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... |
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Innovation Teams Generate Common Good SolutionsNew York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), United Arab EmiratesEvery 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 |
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Developing Innovations for the Sharing EconomyInnovate UK, United KingdomThe 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... |
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How Open Innovation Can Help AirAsia Improve the Customer ExperienceAirAsia, MalaysiaThe 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... |
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Open Innovation Talent Search Finds Novel Social PlatformNTT Data, JapanA 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 - |
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Open Innovation Generates Novel Uses for a Natural Citrus FiberFiberstar, United StatesNobody 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... |
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Disrupting Gold Mining with Open InnovationGoldcorp/Integra Gold Corp, CanadaIn 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... |
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Open Innovation Approach to Redesigning Hotel RoomsEurostars Hotels, SpainEurostars 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... |
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Hackathon to Find Ways to Use Robots to Address Elderly Healthcare NeedsSegway Robotics/MIT, SingaporeSo 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... |
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Open Innovation Call to Help Astronauts Poop Safely in SpaceNASA, United StatesWhen 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 |
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Combating Fake News with Open InnovationHeroX, United StatesIn 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... |
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A Big Step Forward for ALS Treatment ResearchPrize4Life, United StatesAmyotrophic 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... |
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Open Innovation Delivers Disruptive Formula 1 IdeasFormula 1/Tata Communications, IndiaAs 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... |
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Open Innovation Platform Delivers Autonomous BusLocal Motors, United StatesOne 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... |
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Rescue Robot for Disaster Relief Wins Open Innovation ChallengeKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South KoreaIn 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... |
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A Timely Idea to Inspire Healthy EatingElectrolux, SwedenFood 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... |
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Open Innovation and the Refugee CrisisThe European Commission, BelgiumIn 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... |
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Open Innovation Search for Disruptive TechnologiesCisco Systems, United StatesThe 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 |
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Open Innovation Event Helps Safety Agencies Solve Operational ChallengesMotorola, AustraliaA 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 |
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Open Innovation Boost to Drug DevelopmentAstraZeneca, United KingdomAstraZeneca 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... |
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Conglomerate Reaps Benefits of Open InnovationJohn Keells PLC, Sri LankaLet'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... |
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Open Innovation Contest Yields Eye Tracking Sticky SmartphoneZTE Corporation, ChinaInvolving 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... |
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Addressing the Water Crisis through Open Innovation ApproachesEmbassy of Sweden in Hanoi, Viet NamFor 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... |
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Ireland’s First Ever Energy Hackathon Uncovers Bright Energy IdeasElectricity Supply Board, IrelandWhile 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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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 <a href="http://www.enterpriseinspace.org/winner/" target=_blank>Enterprise in Space</a> (EIS) crowdsourcing competition to t... |
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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... |
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Crowdsourcing a New Beer Beverage with BudweiserAnheuser-Busch InBev, United StatesUsing crowdsourcing to find new flavors is a popular approach among food and beverage companies. In recent years, we've seen new potato chip, ice cream and pizza flavors and that's just for starters.... |
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Crowdsourced Solutions to Protect the PlanetClimate CoLab, United StatesThe Climate CoLab, a project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) runs a series of open innovation contests to find solutions for numerous challenges presented by our planet's changing c... |
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Music Star Crowdsources Song InspirationReThink Housing, United StatesCrowdsourcing pop songs has been a mini trend running through the music industry. In recent years, we've seen Coca-Cola and American Idol crowdsourcing a song for Carly Rae Jepsen and the Swedish DJ |
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Solving Crop Problems by Leveraging the CrowdPlantVillage, United StatesCrowdsourced science projects that involve citizen scientists, academics and other knowledgeable experts have made significant contributions to numerous fields. They include astronomy, ecology and AI... |
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The Crowd Strikes Back with another Movie ClassicStar Wars Uncut, United StatesThe crowd has once again revealed its ultra-creative side by remaking a shot-for-shot version of "The Empire Strikes Back", the second movie in the original Star Wars trilogy. The crowdsourced cut wa... |
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Open Innovation Defies Physics to Give Aerodynamics a LiftBAE Systems, United KingdomAccording to news reports, an open innovation collaboration between scientists has resulted in an innovation that has ‘defied the laws of physics’. Researchers from BAE Systems and Queen Mary’s... |
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Crowdsourcing Apps to Improve City LifeBigApps NYC, United StatesData sharing and collaboration enables and accelerates knowledge creation. There is innovation gold hidden away in data that can be rooted out if brilliant minds are allowed to get to work. BigAp... |
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Open Innovation and a Tough Political DecisionInstitute of Economic Affairs, United KingdomOne of the most fascinating innovations in open innovation is how the paradigm is being used to engage citizens in political processes, giving them more of a say in how their neighborhoods, cities and... |
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Crowdsourcing Breakthrough Cognitive Technology SolutionsIBM, United StatesSo, let’s say you are a successful multinational technology and consulting corporation that has developed a new technology that you believe can radically transform how consumers and businesses inter... |
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Open Innovation and the World’s First Ever 3D Printed Car DesignLocal Motors, United StatesLocal Motors is successfully driving forward a change in how cars are designed by running competitions to find innovations. It is a process that appears to be working with novel designs coming off th... |
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Improving City Life with Crowdsourcing Apps ContestNew Cities Foundation, FranceTightly focused contests with a narrow scope and a clear set of guidelines can be a boon to organizations and companies that operate them. With clear objectives in mind, innovators can concentrate t... |
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Crowdsourcing Solutions to Global Problems with NASANASA, United StatesThe space agency NASA has long been a fan of open collaboration and of working with the crowd to solve some of the many technical hurdles it faces in pioneering the frontiers of space. By bringing a |
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Turning to the Crowd for the Next Big Jewish IdeaThe Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, United StatesIn 2011 the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles embarked on an open innovation search for a big idea that could help mobilize the Jewish community. So, the <a href="http://www.thenextbigjewishidea.com/" |
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Air France’s Open Innovation Approach Takes OffAir France, FranceDespite the many advantages of tapping into the brain power of the crowd, some enterprises experience nothing but frustration. They throw out a challenge and receive a tidal wave of solutions from eve... |
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Fresh Banking Ideas Sought from the CrowdWestpac, New ZealandCrowdsourcing with consumers comes with numerous benefits: increased innovation capacity, a flow of new ideas, reduced innovation risk and accelerated time to market with new products and services to |
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Crowdsourcing Competitions to Find Solutions to Robocalls MiseryFederal Trade Commission, United StatesTechnology marches on at breakneck speeds with the promise of making our lives easier and better. However, technology can also be a pain in the neck. It is technology that we have to blame for roboc... |
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New York Hotel Designed by the CrowdProdigy Network, United StatesOne of the boons of open innovation contests is that by setting ambitious goals, participants raise their game to find solutions. We have seen it time and again in historic competitions such as the L... |
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How Open Innovation Helped to Create a Billion Dollar BrandProcter and Gamble, United StatesFebreze is a brand of odor eliminator that started out as a fabric refresher and has since become a multi-product success story, branching out into such categories as plug-in oils, odor eliminating ca... |
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How the Crowd is Exploring the MoonZooniverse, United KingdomThe last time humans set foot on the moon was in 1972 with Apollo 17, the final mission of the Apollo lunar landing program. Since astronaut Eugene Cernan climbed back into the lunar module Challenge... |
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Open Innovation Boost for the Future of EducationMicrosoft, United StatesThe power of the crowd can achieve great things when smart brains come together to work on ways to bring about meaningful changes in society. Their ideas, once put into action can make a terrific imp... |
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Wine Region Elicits Crowd Help for Architectural ProjectMendoza Art District, ArgentinaThe Province of Mendoza, Argentina, in South America is the center of the world-renowned Argentinian wine industry, a desert region with an artificial irrigation system that supports mile after mile o... |
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Next Generation Medical Innovation Via Open InnovationUnited States Army, United StatesNo one organisation, company or outfit has the monopoly on great ideas, a fact recognized by an ever increasing number of public and private sector outfits that are turning to the crowd for inspiratio... |
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Crowdsourcing Historic Ships to Improve Climate ModellingZooniverse, United Kingdom“Many hands make light work”, the old saying goes. Today’s open innovation and crowdsourcing initiatives demonstrate how this is so. They utilize the smarts of the crowd to solve problems and br... |
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Harnessing the Crowd to End Climate ChangeThe MIT Climate CoLab, United StatesWhen smart people from diverse backgrounds get together and pool their intellectual resources, the results can be truly phenomenal. Free from corporate or university constraints they can work indepen... |
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Open Innovation Solutions for Mental Health Problems in the Developing WorldScientists Without Borders, United StatesThe power of the crowd and open innovation may well be helping businesses solve their problems, innovate and develop new products, but the benefits don’t end there. Soliciting the contribution of d... |
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Open Innovation to Future-Proof a Business ModelValora, SwitzerlandIn looking ahead to the future, Swiss-based company Valora realized that one of its business wings could soon run into trouble. The company operates the majority of kiosks (called “k kiosks” in S... |
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New Product Lines with Open InnovationAkzoNobel, NetherlandsAkzoNobel, is a Dutch multinational that creates decorative paints, performance coatings and specialty chemicals. For a number of years it has been very active in the open innovation space looking fo... |
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Working with the Crowd to Solve Civic IssuesThe City of San Francisco, United StatesOpen innovation is providing communities in numerous countries with the means to start to affect change in their localities. Not only as a way to report civic problems but also to ideate, design, dev... |
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Open Innovation Achieves when Traditional Procurement Fails to DeliverUnited States Department of Veterans Affairs, United KingdomIn January 2014, the U.S. General Services Administration’s Chellenge.gov open innovation portal was recognized for the leading part it is playing in innovation. The website beat 600 applicants to |
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Reducing Flight Fuel Costs with Open InnovationGeneral Electric (GE), United StatesIdea contests are a popular form of open innovation that capture the imagination of brilliant minds and focus the attention on speeding up innovation outcomes. General Electric (GE) is a prominent |
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General Mills Develops Two New Food Products with Open Innovation PartnersGeneral Mills, United StatesGeneral Mills, one of the world’s largest food companies is no stranger to letting the outside in. Since 2007 when the global company launched the General Mills Worldwide Innovation Network (G-Win)... |
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Crowdsourcing Competition for Breakthrough Clean Energy SolutionsThe MIT Clean Energy Prize, United StatesEnticed by the lure of valuable funding, exposure and the chance to network with key industry players, dozens of student groups submitted their clean energy solutions to a prestigious annual competiti... |
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Crowdsourcing projects Transforms Old Library into an Arts CenterVolunteers, United KingdomCrowdsourcing has been embraced by a number of cities and communities around the world as a way of funding or developing local projects, to solve issues and incorporate citizens more in the decisions |
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Financial Institution Banks on Crowdsourcing SuccessSberbank, RussiaSberbank is the largest bank in Russia and one of the biggest in Europe. Since 2009 this huge financial institution has been using crowdsourcing methodologies to innovate products and services and ga... |
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Global Open Innovation Contest for City LandmarkCity Planning Department, Helsinki, FinlandHelsinki’s South Harbor area is an important gateway to the city and country. It’s the largest passenger harbor in Finland and an area that’s very close to the center of Helsinki, “an essenti... |
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X PRIZE Contest Finds Breakthrough Oil Cleanup TechnologyElastec, United StatesAn innovation competition is a tried and tested way of providing new concepts for a company’s product pipeline or to solve technical challenges, with contests ranging from the relatively easy to see... |
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The Force is Strong with this Crowdsourcing ContestPringles/Star Wars, United StatesWhen you have access to a source of creative external brainpower what do you do with it? Many companies have embraced open innovation and crowdsourcing to create new products, refine existing ones or... |
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Open Innovation Partnership Leads to Breakthrough Laundry ProductProcter and Gamble/MonoSol, United StatesProcter and Gamble is one of the world’s biggest and most successful consumer products companies. In recent years it has been widely lauded for its Connect and Develop program. This is an open inn... |
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Crowdsourcing Quests for Better Hospitals and More Efficient FlyingGeneral Electric (GE), United StatesInstead of hiring a crack team of researchers to improve upon or develop new algorithms, some companies are turning to the crowd and setting up prize-based competitions instead. One of the most famou... |
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Innovative Saline Bag Wins Open Innovation Contest for its Life-Saving PotentialFosmo Med Inc., United StatesNobody knows when and where the next brilliant idea is going to come from - the product that will make our lives easier and disrupt a market, or the solution to a technical challenge that's holding a |
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Open Innovation and the Future of Rocket DesignDIYRockets, United StatesVenturing out into space whether through unmanned probes or aboard rockets and shuttles is no longer the preserve of large government institutions. The final frontier is the new frontier as numerous |
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Heineken’s Global Search for Beer Concepts for Senior CitizensHeineken, NetherlandsTo gather fresh product ideas and widen the pool of creative inputs to its innovation efforts, Dutch brewing group Heineken created <a href="https://www.ideasbrewery.com/AgeGate/" target=_blank>Ideas |
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Colourful Crowdsourcing Solution to Breast Cancer ChallengesThe DREAM Project, United StatesFrom studying the fundamental causes of diseases to tracking the spread of epidemics and searching for planets outside our solar system, open innovation is help to provide key scientific insights. |
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Open Innovation Call for Healthy Ageing ConceptsMayo Clinic, United StatesSadly for us mere mortals there’s no such thing as an elixir of immortality, but that doesn't stop people from looking for solutions to keep us healthy and active for as long as possible. In 2013... |
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Open Innovation Energy Contest Yields Breakthrough IdeasU.S. Energy Department, United StatesWith the energy and utility bills changing wildly over the years - usually going in the upwards direction rather than downwards - and concerns about the health of the planet, there has never been a gr... |
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New York’s Open Innovation Search for Big IdeasNew York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), United States“Entrepreneurs are the pioneers, the visionaries, the game changers that drive innovation and create new and exciting businesses that sustain the vibrancy of any city,” said Seth. W. Pinsky, Presi... |
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Student Crowdsourcing Project Delivers World-Changing IdeasDell/University of Texas at Austin, United StatesUsing the principles of crowdsourcing, numerous organizations are encouraging social innovators to work together on their big ideas to change the world. Ever since 2007, the Dell Social Innovation |
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Open Innovation Challenge Yields Novel E-Waste Management SolutionsOpenIDEOPeople love gadgets. When new smartphones, iPad and laptop incarnations hit the shops, shelves are emptied within hours. But happy and content consumers leads to problems as old electronics are disca... |
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Creative Children and their Dream MachinesMyMachine, BelgiumChildren are often creating, dreaming and imagining. Theirs is a world of endless possibilities, but rarely do they get an opportunity to turn their wildest dreams into reality. Until now that is, a... |
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The Power and Potential of People-Centered InnovationEuropean Commission, BelgiumWhen problems beset society, the clamour for solutions is loud and prolonged. Explanations and resolutions are demanded from politicians and public institutions, yet there is often dissatisfaction wit... |
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Breakthrough Open Innovation with Internal TeamsBupa, United KingdomOpen innovation is not only about bringing the outside in. The paradigm is also a means of engaging those on the inside. Leveraging the creativity and smarts of employees is an effective way for fir... |
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Crowdsourcing Global Development GoalsThe United NationsThe Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that were established following the 2000 United Nations Millennium Summit. They have galvanized global attention and |
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Open Innovation Gives Lifetime Brands a $50 Million BoostLifetime Brands, United StatesLifetime Brands, a North American company that designs, develops and markets a range of branded kitchenware, home and lifestyle products regularly seeks outside innovation. It recognizes there are lo... |
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Open Innovation Collaboration Leads to an Eco-Friendly Paints RangeAkzoNobel, NetherlandsOpen innovation comes in many forms from crowdsourcing design and product naming contests to tech scouting, partnerships, technical problem solving challenges and more. The use of diverse, external |
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Facebook Games Fights Killer FungusBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), United KingdomWhen it comes to biological emergencies scientists need all the help they can get. Faced with a potential epidemic, the need for answers and strategies is crucial, yet sometimes the snail-like pace t... |
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The Creativity of the Crowd Gives Canada a BoostCanadian Tourism Commission (CTC), CanadaOne of the many things that crowdsourcing has going for it is the ability to fire up the passion of an interested group and galvanize people to get creative for a common goal. Marketers have cottoned... |
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Open Innovation and Publishing's New ChapterUnbound Publishing, United KingdomOpen innovation is helping to change the landscape within numerous industries, from medicine to mechanical engineering, aviation to agriculture. It’s also causing some ripples in the publishing wor... |
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Domino’s Pizza Cooks Up Delivery Vehicle Open Innovation ContestDomino's Pizza, United StatesDomino’s Pizza has a reputation for innovating pizza delivery services. It came up with the Heatwave Bag (heated bag to deliver oven-fresh pizzas) and the corrugated pizza box among other innovatio... |
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Crowdsourcing and Colonoscopies: The Benefits of Distributed Knowledge for Cancer DiagnosisNational Institutes of Health, United StatesIn many industries computers and software programs do some of the heavy lifting and enhance the capabilities of workers. Medicine is just one of many areas to have benefited from smart technologies. |
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Open Innovation and the Power of Health DataInstitute of Medicine/National Academy of Engineering, United StatesThe world is swimming with data - long reams of statistics, charts, graphs, and analyses. More of it is available to the general public than ever before as government institutions and organisations |
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Crowdsourcing to Engage the ElectorateKevin Rudd/DesignCrowd, AustraliaTo win elections politicians need recognition and votes. It’s a simple enough formula. But how do you engage and reach parts of the electorate that might otherwise not know you exist or care little... |
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Crowdsourcing the Education Needs of the WorldEducation for All, FranceIn 2012 UNESCO teamed up with mobile phone company Nokia and nonprofit organization Pearson Foundation to launch the eight month long 'Education for All (EFA) Crowdsourcing Challenge'. The aim was |
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Crowdsourcing to Save LivesPenn Medicine, United StatesAutomated external defibrillators (AEDs) are portable electronic devices that can save lives by jump starting a heart in cardiac arrest and returning it to its normal rhythm. In the United States, as... |
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Open Innovation Accelerates Green Giant Product InnovationGeneral Mills, United StatesThe innovation landscape has changed. There are fewer companies today that think they can go it alone or that they have a monopoly on ideas and solutions. Open innovation is moving from the margin t... |
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Crowdsourcing to Create a Disruptive Approach to Building Military VehiclesDARPA, United StatesIn 2010 the US Department of Defense and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched a major program to crowdsource the next generation of infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) through a |
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Co-Creating with Consumers Puts a Sparkle in a Soft Drinks BrandPepsiCo, United StatesProduct naming, labeling and package designing competitions are all the rage and a fun way for consumer-facing companies to engage their customers and attract some new ones. The rules are simple, par... |
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Crowdsourcing the Recruitment ProcessCode Together, United StatesCrowdsourcing can be an effective recruitment tool that draws the brightest and most able people. By posting competitions to assorted groups companies can see who is coming up with the most intellige... |
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Crowdsourcing at the Bottom of the SeaNEPTUNE Canada/University of Victoria, CanadaThanks to the power of the Internet hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens all over the world are helping scientists with their research endeavors. There are many citizen science initiatives cove... |
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Open Innovation Cooks up New Frozen Vegetables LineGeneral Mills and Burley Foods, United StatesGeneral Mills is one of the leading practitioners of open innovation, a multinational corporation that has worked with innovators beyond its walls for a number of years. Its primary focus is on food |
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Open Innovation to Unclog Cairo’s RoadsThe Cairo Transport App Challenge, EgyptThe Cairo metropolitan area like those of so many other busy cities across the world experiences daily problems with congestion. It increases travel time, has adverse affects on air quality and publi... |
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Crowdsourcing Discoveries in Deep SpaceGalaxy Zoo, United StatesFrom tracking comets and studying galaxies to designing drug molecules and searching for extraterrestrial life, members of the public are increasingly getting involved in scientific research. Cit... |
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Crowdsourcing Potato Chip Flavors Boosts SalesSimba, South AfricaCrowdsourcing contests are smart PR tools in addition to being valuable means of innovating. They have been enthusiastically embraced by some customer-facing companies as a way to market their brand... |
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Novel Apps to Boost Fuel EconomyUS Government, United StatesIn countries across the world, local, regional and national governments continue to release their data to empower citizens, improve public services, and spur innovation and economic growth. Data-sets |
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Hackathon to Create Autism AppsAT&T/Autism Speaks, United StatesHackathons are about getting things done. They are open innovation events where short bursts of intense activity by diverse groups of people tackle challenges and innovate. There are hackathons |
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Global Community of Scientists Tackles Fungal InvasionJohn Innes Center/Sainsbury Laboratory, United KingdomAsh dieback is a fungal disease that can wipe out whole woods of ash trees. It is caused by an aggressive pathogen known as Chalara fraxinea that first emerged in Poland in the 1990s and has swept ac... |
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Schools Get Creative with Crowdsourced Sneaker CompetitionVans, United StatesThe Vans Custom Culture Contest is a crowdsourcing competition for high school students in the USA. It encourages them to give vent to their creative passions by coming up with original designs for s... |
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International DJ Crowdsources a Pop SongAvicii, SwedenLennon and McCartney, Goffin and King, Simon and Garfunkel, the pop landscape is littered with successful musical collaborations. So how about a new one - the world and DJ Avicii? The Swedish house... |
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Novel Concepts at the Philips Innovation Open ContestPhilips, NetherlandsConsumer electronics behemoth Philips has long understood that great ideas can come from anywhere, not just company employees. It is the driving thought behind ‘Simply Innovate’ the open innovati... |
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Flying High with Open Innovation and the Future of Hand LuggageLufthansa, GermanyGerman airline company Lufthansa frequently reaches out to the crowd for innovative ideas to enhance its passenger and freight services. It has long valued co-creation with consumers as a way to deve... |
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Open Innovation to Help Prevent Mass AtrocitiesUSAID and Humanity United, United States<a href="http://thetechchallenge.org" target=_blank>The Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention</a> is a global open innovation initiative that is seeking novel technology-based solutions to deal with |
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Open Innovation Contest Seeks Novel Bike Designs for AfricaCycling out of Poverty, NetherlandsThe Wiki-Bike African Design contest was an open innovation project to create sustainable bicycle designs made from environmentally friendly and locally sourced materials. The principle aim was to su... |
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Philips Wins $10 Million Prize for Energy Efficient Light Bulb of the FuturePhilips, NetherlandsCompetitions spur innovation like nothing else, a fact not lost on the US government when it launched a multi-million dollar contest for environmentally friendly light bulbs. The L-Prize, also know... |
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Crowdsourcing Helps Tackle a Killer E. coli OutbreakBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Councils (BBSRC), United KingdomE. coli (Escherichia coli) is a common bacterium that lives in the human gut. Most strains are harmless and some are beneficial, for example, by helping us to digest our food. Occasionally though th... |
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Open Innovation Help for Future Mars MissionsNASA, United StatesWith the American space agency NASA feeling the financial pinch it has had to reformulate some of its planned exploration of Mars. Budget cuts meant a partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA)... |
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Open Innovation Speeds Up Development of a General Mills Snack ProductGeneral Mills, United States"I think the emphasis on open innovation has really broadened the minds of a lot of the people in our technical organization and across the company," said Jeff Resch, senior scientist, General Mills. |
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Jewelry Brand’s Co-Creation Initiative to Reach New MarketsTanishq, IndiaTanishq is one of India’s largest jewelry brands, primarily selling pieces to affluent women in the 40-plus age bracket. To help it reach out to a new audience of young working women it held an ope... |
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Iceland Crowdsources its ConstitutionIceland's Constitutional Council, IcelandOpen innovation is founded on two fundamental precepts – that a problem has already been solved somewhere else in the world and that organisations can access expertise beyond their borders (smarter |
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Walmart Hosts Open Innovation ‘Talent’ Contest for New ProductsWalmart, United StatesSpace on a Walmart shelf is a rare and much sought after thing. Every year thousands of would-be vendors make countless pitches to the American multinational retail chain hoping to convince sales team... |
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Crowd Revved Up by BMW Open Innovation ContestBMW, GermanyThe way that cars are made hasn’t changed for generations. Companies employ designers who dream up a few models, then people higher up the corporate food chain give the green light to those they fe... |
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Lockheed Martin’s Open Innovation Search for Cool IdeasLockheed Martin, United StatesThe American global aerospace, defense and security company Lockheed Martin has a long tradition of breakthrough innovations in numerous fields. To mark its 100th anniversary in 2012 the defense cont... |
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Crowdsourcing to Spot Future Trends and Help Mobile Phone Giant to Stay RelevantNokia Corporation, FinlandStaying ahead of the curve requires companies to envisage more than just what the future will look like. If they are involved in innovation they must foresee how they will design and define that futu... |
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Chemical Company Uses Social Media to Boost InnovationEvonik Industries, GermanySocial media can be a valuable resource for companies. It can be used to: 1) Test products and services to identify any weaknesses 2) Develop solutions to those problems 3) Come up with product... |
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World-Beating Green Ideas to Help the PlanetPostcode Lottery, NetherlandsSince 2007, the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge has been providing an open innovation contest platform to encourage and help social entrepreneurs develop innovative and sustainable products and servi... |
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Open Innovation Helps the Hunt for the Universe's Missing MaterialNASA, United StatesOne of open innovation’s towering strengths is that it encourages people who normally focus on problems in specific fields to apply their techniques to solving challenges in completely different dis... |
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Technological Solutions to Help Prevent Human Rights AbusesAmnesty International, United KingdomThe threats posed by international terrorism have led to countries all over the world beefing up their security to protect their citizens. In some places this has come at the cost of basic human righ... |
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Audi Looks to the Future of Car ProductionAudi, GermanyFor the last decade open innovation has been helping an increasing number of companies to speed up their innovation processes and get more products to market in quicker time frames. But this valuabl... |
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Open Innovation at the US Department of Health and Human ServicesUS Department of Health and Human Services, United StatesThe US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) holds a series of open innovation contests for its employees that could provide a model for other organisations. In particular, those looking to i... |
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Open Innovation Provides Sanitation Solutions in GhanaCleanTeam, GhanaThe lack of proper sanitation in the home and in public areas is a serious health concern in Kumasi, Ghana’s second largest city. Many households do not have their own toilets and the range of sani... |
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Driving Innovation for Future Transport NeedsBombardier Transportation, CanadaBombardier Transportation was the first company in the rail industry to engage with open innovation when it launched a web-based contest in 2009 that invited people to share their ideas for the future... |
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Fan Designed Football Kit Shows Business the Promise of Social Media CommunitiesOlympique Marseille, FranceOnline social media communities are playing an increasingly visible role in helping companies to ideate, innovate and solve problems. In addition, a loyal and engaged online consumer base can pay enor... |
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Students Deliver World-Class Solutions in Global Innovation ChallengeInnovation Challenge, United StatesGetting some of the best student minds in the world to work on pressing business and social innovation challenges is the intent of the annual Global Innovation Challenge. For more than ten years this... |
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Novel Sustainable Living Solutions from the Dow Solar Design to Zero CompetitionDow Chemical Company, United StatesA versatile, cost-effective, and elegant living space for residential and commercial occupancy, covered by solar panels and that can pay for itself in less than 14 years was the winner of the Dow Sola... |
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Open Innovation Search for Innovate Diabetes SolutionsSanofi-Aventis US, United StatesTo build on the success of its 2011 open innovation competition to look for innovative concepts to make life easier for people living with diabetes, Global healthcare provider Sanofi US once again tu... |
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Boosting the Pace of Scientific Discovery with Open InnovationBoehringer Ingelheim, GermanyIn its search for a model to accurately predict the biological responses of molecules, pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim turned to an online science community to ask it to come up with an al... |
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Sneaker Company Experiments with Filtering the CrowdSimple Shoes, United StatesSimple Shoes is a Santa Barbara sneaker company that in 2010 experimented with a crowdsourcing contest that challenged freelance creative professionals to outperform a creative agency. 'Simple Shoe... |
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How Open Innovation Can Shake-Up Auditing and AccountingTeamMate, United StatesYes, open innovation can accelerate the pace of innovation, design better products and services and provide access to good and perhaps even better ideas. But its potential isn't just confined to R&D a... |
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Speech Therapy Apps Benefit from an Open Innovation ApproachSmarty Ears, United StatesSmarty Ears is a developer of iPad apps for speech therapy and communication and uses open innovation to increase the number of ideas it gets to market and to accelerate the product development cycle.... |
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On the Road with the UK’s First Crowdsourced CarCitroen, FranceAccording to motor giant Citroen its C1 Connexion is the UK’s first crowdsourced car. Featuring the slogan ‘You like it, we make it’ the car company collaborated with Facebook on an app th... |
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Crowdsourcing to Create Better Futures in MinnesotaMinnesota Community Foundation, United StatesInspired by the open innovation and crowdsourcing endeavors of others such as MyStarbucks.com and the X Prize Foundation, the Minnesota Community Foundation decided to get its own project underway to |
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Lego Cuusoo: Innovating with the CrowdLego, DenmarkLego is an open innovation pioneer, one of the first companies to develop practices and platforms to engage external contributors to innovation processes. Being open to the ideas of others has helped... |
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Co-Creation with Children Brings New Product to MarketKellogg Company, United StatesCo-creation is the open innovation approach that is now the focus of increasing attention from the business community as companies seek to capitalize on the intelligence and creativity of their consum... |
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Volvo Co-Creates an SUV with ConsumersVolvo, SwedenWhen co-creating with the crowd a company needs to decide how involved it wants outsiders to be, whether they are going to help with a specific one-off challenge or maintain a continuous presence thro... |
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Crowdsourcing Game Design Energises ConsumersPutter King LLC, JapanThe relationships between brands and their audiences are evolving as fans, followers and customers have the time, inclination and desire to become involved at a deeper level with their favourite compa... |
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Co-Creating with Consumers Generates Wins for Kraft FoodsKraft Foods, United StatesThe emergence of co-creation as a new form of open innovation engagement with consumers is a trend that is becoming hard to ignore. For product development, innovation and strategic thinking it can h... |
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Going for Gold with Open InnovationDSM, NetherlandsMultinational life sciences and materials sciences-based company DSM launched an open innovation contest in 2011 that invited creative thinkers and innovators to design a sporting innovation using the... |
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The Crowd Remakes a Movie ClassicStarwarsuncut.com, United StatesThe evil Galactic Empire hasn’t seen anything like it. The force is with the crowd as Star Wars fans from all over the world have created a complete crowdsourced version of the 1977 sci-fi classic |
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Crowdfunding Community ProjectsSpacehive, United KingdomFor cash strapped cities suffering from ever shrinking budgets, the crowds and their pockets are coming to the rescue. In an age of austerity, urban loving and enterprising individuals are employing... |
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Philips Reaps the Benefits of Collaborating with ConsumersPhilips, NetherlandsTo make the most of co-creating with consumers companies should view the practice as much more than market research, and engage the crowd in meaningful ways. Using it as simply a marketing exercise o... |
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Big Ideas to Boost Innovation in AfricaOpen Innovation Africa Summit (OIAS²), KenyaThere is no shortage of innovators and creative talents across the African continent. However, there are a number of factors that make it more difficult for their innovations and ideas to see the lig... |
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Nivea Co-Creates with the Crowd to Eliminate Stain ProblemNivea, GermanyThe concept of co-creation, seeking ideas and information from a group of people to help develop a product is an offshoot of open innovation and crowdsourcing, and typically involves consumers in nich... |
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Open Innovation Gets Your Motor RunningFactory Five, United StatesOne of the many advantages of open innovation is that a company can tap into a deep well of knowledge, passion and enthusiasm of members of the crowd wherever they may be in the world. Provided parti... |
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How Swarovski Capitalized on the CrowdSwarovski, AustriaEmbarking on open innovation opportunities with customers offers a company or brand new thinking, fresh perspectives, untapped ideas and publicity. Swarovski the cut crystal and luxury products ret... |
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Open Innovation Approach to keep Track of AnythingDeloitte, Deutsche Telekom, HYVE and RWTH Aachen University, GermanyM2M (machine to machine communications) is considered to be an emerging field where state-of-the-art communications technology allows devices to communicate with each other. As such it is ripe for op... |
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Smart Ideas for Plastics ProcessingReifenhauser, GermanyIdea contests have given the world many new ideas and novel concepts. They’ve helped us navigate the high seas (thanks to John Harrison’s marine chronometer) sent numerous planes and airships acr... |
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Building a Local House with the 100 Mile Home Ideas ContestArchitecture Foundation of British Columbia, CanadaIf you want environmental, technical or economic issues tackled just call on the crowd for swift, innovative and cost effective solutions. The crowd is used to solve a large variety of challenges w... |
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Ingenious Solutions for Security ChallengesGlobal Security Challenge - 2011, United KingdomEvery year the Global Security Challenge awards over $500,000 to entrepreneurs and innovators in the security fields who come up with ideas, technologies and innovations that make airports, cities and... |
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Show Off Your Apps with the National Library of MedicineNational Library of Medicine (NLM), United StatesApps contests have the potential to transform seemingly dry data sets that barely see the light of day into ingenious programs that can provide better public services, easier access to information, a... |
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Creating a Green World with Open InnovationScrapLab, ThailandThe beauty of crowdsource design contests is that they provide a platform for creative types to showcase their talents, which can generate unique ideas and concepts at low cost that in some instances |
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Can $300 Change the World?Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar, United StatesIt began as a challenge on a blog post on the ‘Harvard Business Review’ and thanks to a huge response from the public grew into a collection of 300 design submissions from all over the planet. |
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Vodafone Americas Foundation Announces 2012 Wireless Innovation Project WinnersVodafone Americas Foundation, United StatesThree Groundbreaking Mobile Innovations Target Critical Issues in Agriculture, Healthcare and Developing Economies The Vodafone Americas Foundation and mHealth Alliance are pleased to announce the... |
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Crowdsource Computer Game to Help Solve Global Health ProblemsUniversity of Washington, United StatesProteins are the building blocks of life, but they also play a part in many illnesses and conditions. Determining their structure is vital to understand the mechanisms by which diseases are caused an... |
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Siemens Smart Grid Innovation ContestSiemens, GermanyIn 2005 the European Union adopted the Smart Grid concept to improve on energy efficiency and cut down on waste. But the power grids face a number of challenges, not least of which is an insufficient... |
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Open Innovation Fuels BMW’s Ideation ProcessBMW, GermanyFor car giant BMW, open innovation offers plenty of opportunities to increase its product pipeline and to integrate external ideas into its ideation process. One of its innovation approaches is the... |
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Open Innovation Gives Bus Stop a MakeoverUniversity of Utah/Utah Transit Authority, United StatesCrowdsourcing is a useful tool to gather ideas and concepts from diverse sources. Typically, participation is open to all and the crowd is usually characterized by several recognizable features: it i... |
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The US Navy Taps the Crowd to Combat Marine PiracyThe Office of Naval Research, United StatesThere is a piracy crisis on the high seas, and according to many commentators it’s getting worse. Highly sophisticated pirate crews use the latest hi-tech equipment to locate and board ships and ta... |
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Global Company’s Strong Bonds with Open InnovationHenkel, GermanyWhen personal and home care company Henkel wanted innovative ideas and designs for packaging of its consumer adhesive products it appealed to the crowd for inspiration. Henkel’s ‘Adhesive Packa... |
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Energy Efficient Managing and Transportation of WaterImagine H20, United StatesNon profit organization Imagine H20 has coordinated a number of open innovation initiatives to uncover cutting edge solutions to tricky water problems. One of those was the 2010 Water-Energy Nexus Co... |
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Open Innovation in the Airfreight Industry is a Runway SuccessLufthansa Cargo, GermanyOpen innovation is a powerful catalyst for radical thinking as Lufthansa Cargo is well aware of. The global cargo airline wanted to benefit from the wisdom of crowd to help reduce its environmental i... |
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Zazzle’s Million Dollar Open Innovation ChallengeZazzle, United StatesIf there’s one thing guaranteed to catch attention it’s a headline promising $1 million worth of prizes. The Zazzle Million Dollar Open Innovation Challenge offered just that and was a global sea... |
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Pan European Challenge to Build Dream Apps from Public DataOpen Knowledge Foundation, United KingdomThe Open Data Challenge was Europe’s biggest public data competition with a grand total of 20,000 Euros (approx. USD $27,000) worth of prize money up for grabs. It was organised by the Open Knowled... |
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Tackling the Diabetes Epidemic with Open InnovationSanofi-Aventis, United StatesDiabetes is an epidemic that is on the rise. In the US alone more than 1 in 4 Americans is affected by the disease. The overall cost to US healthcare is $2.6 trillion (this equates to about $21,000 p... |
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Open Innovation Gets Dutch Company Out of a Sticky SituationDSM, NetherlandsE-850 is an adhesive resin developed by scientists at DSM, a global science company involved in health, nutrition and materials. The resin is the main component of one of the company’s glues used w... |
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To Boldly Go Where No Code Has Gone BeforeNASA, United StatesWith the vast expanse of the Universe, and the sheer volume of data beamed back from telescopes and robotic missions, space scientists need all the help they can get to enable them to better explore w... |
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Nokia’s Global Search for a New RingtoneNokia Corporation, FinlandIt is one of the world’s most recognised tunes, and is heard at least one billion times a day. But even so, Nokia wanted to ring in the changes with a fresh version of its classic tune, ‘Grand Val... |
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Scientists Ask the Crowds for Cash#The SciFund Challenge, United StatesIn order to carry out research, scientists need funding, and the conventional way to get funding is to apply for a grant from government agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or pri... |
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How Dunkin’ Donuts Uses Open Innovation to Get AheadDunkin' Donuts, United StatesOpen innovation, particularly via crowdsourcing competitions has a number of food companies licking their lips for the opportunity they provide to connect with customers, receive product ideas at a co... |
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Mind-Blowing Ideas from Open InnovationZyxsio, United StatesWhen Zyxio, a start-up human media interaction company developed a new breath control technology it asked the crowd for ideas on how the innovation could be used. Their patented technology is calle... |
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DHL’s Search for Cutting Edge Logistics SolutionsDHL, GermanyInternational express shipping provider DHL faces a number of challenges every day as it seeks to optimize its logistics and transport activities in urban areas, whilst considering the traffic environ... |
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Open Innovation Tunes into Whale SongScientific American/The Zooniverse, United StatesMarine scientists have launched a global call for help deciphering the language of pilot and killer whales. Currently, understanding of their communication is poor with many of their calls remaining a... |
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A Full-Length Opera Devised, Developed and Designed by the CrowdSavonlinna Opera Festival, FinlandCrowdsourcing and open innovation take centre stage with a project to create a full-length opera in an online community. Since 2010 The Opera by You initiative has been drawing on ideas for music... |
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No Chance of Destroying the Evidence with DARPA’s Shredder ChallengeDARPA, United StatesThe scene is a familiar one: a regime on the run shreds all its top secret documents and leaves precious little behind for incoming forces to find. That’s a scenario that provided inspiration for a... |
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How the Crowd is Helping with Problems in the ClassroomNational Education Association Foundation & US Department of Education, United StatesTeacher needed a little help in the classroom to solve some of education’s most pressing challenges and so the U.S. Department of Education and the NEA (National Education Association) Foundation la... |
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Phenomenal Global Response to World Bank Innovation ContestWorld Bank, United States“One of the reasons we threw open the doors to our data was that we recognized we don’t have a monopoly on innovation,” said World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick. “These apps clearly... |
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Creating New Laws with the CrowdCalifornia State Assemblymember Jared Huffman, United StatesMost people at one time or another have thought that there should be laws and by-laws where none exist currently, or that aspects of the criminal code that are particularly irksome should be changed. |
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Global Contest to Promote Economic OpportunityeBay Foundation, United StatesAccording to the World Bank 80 percent of the planet’s population lives on less than $10 per day. In the USA alone, one in every six Americans lives in poverty. These startling figures and the fac... |
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A Major Food Brand's Appetite for Open InnovationSmith's Snackfood Company, Australia... |
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Open Innovation Takes Chile By StormMinistry of Economy, Development and Tourism, ChileThe government of Chile has embarked on a number of initiatives to encourage its citizens to become more involved in entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation. The overall aim is to ultimately bre... |
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The Race to Build a Super Efficient Eco-Friendly CarX PRIZE Foundation, United StatesThere’s nothing quite like the lure of fame and fortune to galvanise thinking and when you throw a tough challenge into the mix as well you have a heady and intoxicating combination, as the X PRIZE |
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Open Innovation Throws the Environment a LifelineEnvironmental Protection Agency, United StatesOpen innovation and crowdsourcing solutions are being sought to help reduce our carbon footprint and make the planet a greener place to live. In June 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E... |
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Open Innovation Contest for Tech-Savvy CitizensCity of Ottawa, CanadaIn 2010, the City of Ottawa decided to embark on a new mission to encourage the development of apps to make living in the city easier. With an overall prize purse of $50,000, the Apps4Ottawa competi... |
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Unilever Turns to Crowdsourcing to Promote Snack Food BrandUnilever, United KingdomHaving dropped the ad agency for one of its popular food brands Unilever decided to hold a crowdsourcing competition to find advertising ideas for Peperami, a meat snack. The company was looking for |
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Crowdfunding Platform to Educate Children Wins HackathonGarage48 Foundation, EstoniaCrowdsourcing hackathons are valuable initiatives that can generate volumes of ideas and workable solutions in a short space of time. Typically they are day-long or two day-long, focused team-based e... |
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Crowdsourcing Goes Up in the World: DARPA Balloon HuntDARPA, United StatesCrowdsourcing showed its true character and worth as a very effective finding tool in the DARPA Network Challenge sponsored by US government agency DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). |
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Crowdsourcing Project Exposes Politicians' Wrong DoingsThe Guardian Newspaper, United KingdomIn 2009 crowdsourcing helped to blow the lid off the biggest political scandal to hit the UK in at least a decade. The Daily Telegraph newspaper had obtained the expenses details of all members o... |
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Crowdsourcing to Understand the Molecules of LifeCarnegie Mellon University/Stanford University, United StatesRNA (ribonucleic acid) is one of life’s fundamental building blocks and a key messenger and regulator of cell functions, but there is still a great deal of information that science has yet to learn |
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Crowdsourcing Apps to Make a DifferenceIdeasProject/Nokia, United StatesCan an app truly change the world? That was the question that sparked the creation of a crowdsourcing apps contests organised by IdeasProject an online community founded on the philosophy of democrat... |
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Ben and Jerry’s Scoop on CrowdsourcingBen and Jerry's, United StatesIce cream maker Ben & Jerry's know a thing or two about creating popular flavors, and is well known for viewing its customers as co-creators, valuing and taking note of many of their suggestions and f... |
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Open Innovation Leads to Medical Device BreakthroughsDiabetes Mine, United StatesA futuristic modular three-part wearable artificial pancreas, an innovative small, portable insulin-delivery device and an iPhone/iPod touch app to help diabetic teenage girls develop a glucose testin... |
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Crowdsourcing Contest Winner to Help New York City's CommutersNew York City Government, United StatesNick Nyhan was driving around New York City late one night and was becoming increasingly frustrated at not being able to find a parking space. That moment of irritation was his inspiration for a soci... |
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Airlines Crowdsource New Products with the General PublicEmirates, United Arab EmiratesCrowdsourcing with customers is not only smart PR, but it can also save a company large sums of money as it doesn’t have to engage employees in endless rounds of meetings to come up with ideas and i... |
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Pooling Intelligence to Deal with Global WarmingThe MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, United StatesTo many people, climate change and global warming are among the most pressing and important issues facing humanity today, requiring creative and innovative solutions to ensure the long term health of |
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Supermarket Chain Crowdsources with CustomersWaitrose, United KingdomIn May 2011 a new product hit the shelves of upmarket UK supermarket chain Waitrose. What made this particular item so special was that it was the company’s first customer-created product and follo... |
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Crowdsourcing to Make a City CoolCommunity Foundation of Greater Birmingham, United StatesIt’s not only businesses that are benefiting from crowdsourcing initiatives as towns and cities have cottoned onto the fact that they can pick up great ideas to improve communities and neighborhoods... |
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The World’s First Crowdsourced Military VehicleDARPA, United StatesThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) employs some of the sharpest brains on the planet to develop new technology to be used by the US military. But it does not have all the bright id... |
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Crowdsourcing Down on the FarmThe National Trust, United KingdomCrowdsourcing is becoming part of the innovation fabric of more and more businesses and brands. It is not only being used to create new products and services, but also to determine research focus and... |
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GreenBook: A New Chapter in Environmental ParticipationPaul Frigout, RomaniaThe crowd is a permanently loud presence. Whether we’re tweeting or emailing our opinions to newspapers, broadcasting our own footage across the web or offering advice to retailers we have somethin... |
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Apps for AfricaAppfrica Labs, UgandaThe technological transformations that have swept across many parts of the world have also been making inroads into the African continent. For example, in East Africa alone there are more than 50 mil... |
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Crowdsourcing Competition to Inspire Russian InnovationSkolkovo Foundation, RussiaTo help give innovation a boost in Russia, the Skolkovo Foundation and Cisco launched a crowdsourcing competition for entrepreneurs, students, technologists and innovators who are residents and citize... |
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Crowdsourcing Contest Offers $3 Million PrizeHeritage Provider Network, United StatesCrowdsourcing is a now a familiar concept on the open innovation landscape with new competitions and initiatives being launched every week. It is all part of a large trend that is opening up corpora... |
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Random Hacks of KindnessRHOK, United StatesHackers of the world united in 2009 for the first global ‘Random Hacks of Kindness” (RHOK) crowdsourcing program to create software solutions that make a difference. Since then the community |
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Apps to Help the Poor to Help ThemselvesOne Economy Corporation, United StatesLeveraging the power of the crowd to create applications for the public good was the inspiring goal of the ‘Applications for Good’ crowdsourcing competition. Sponsored by One Economy Corporation,... |
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Crowdsourcing Competition to Reduce and Eliminate WasteAdventure Ecology, United KingdomNobody is as smart as everybody is the foundation that crowdsourcing is built on, an innovation process that can be deployed to tackle any kind of problem and change the way systems, companies and soc... |
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Crowdsourcing Challenge to Find Innovative Ways to Air Dry ClothesLevi Strauss & Co, United StatesOn the face of it a solar powered dome, a windmill and a dryer hidden behind a work of art have very little in common. What links them is that they were all creative submissions to a crowdsourcing a... |
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Crowdsourcing, Potato Chips and Healthy Sales FiguresWalkers, United KingdomWalkers is a British snack food manufacturer, most famous in the UK for its flavored crisps (potato chips). Despite a strong market presence, extensive advertising campaigns and years of bumper sales... |
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Crowdsourcing Climate Change SolutionsThe Government of British Columbia, CanadaThe Government of British Columbia is a recognized leader in taking action to promote environmental sustainability and forward thinking green practices. As with other public bodies and organizations... |
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From Concepts to Products in Under 48 HoursMusic Hackday, United KingdomTake a few hundred artists, musicians and hackers and squirrel them away for a weekend and the end result is a neat demonstration of the power of the crowd. The Music Hack Day Series is a turbo-charg... |
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Global Innovation Jam to Design a Brand New ServiceWork Play Experience, GermanyOn Friday 11th March 2011 at more than fifty locations around the world, hundreds of participants interested in services and customer experience took part in 48 hours of ‘innovation jamming’. T... |
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Apps for Healthy KidsUnited States Department of Agriculture, United StatesCrowdsourcing has been deployed in the nationwide US fight against obesity. To get children off their sofas and to exercise more the First Lady Michelle Obama launched an open innovation competition... |
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Finding Solutions to India’s Sanitation ProblemsFINISH Society, IndiaOpen innovation enjoys an impressive track record in helping to tackle numerous problems and issues in the developing world, such as lack of access to clean water, the threat of mosquitoes and malaria... |
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Empowering Women in the Developing WorldmWomen Connect, United StatesThe Spring 2011 Mobile App Challenge organised by the GSMA (Groupe Spéciale Mobile Association) was a series of open innovation contests aimed at the app developer community and anybody else with ide... |
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CivicApps for Greater PortlandThe City of Portland, United StatesThese days the most forward thinking CEOs see how collaboration can play a big part in their success and are being seduced by the benefits of open innovation. What’s good for private industry is al... |
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Global Search for Healthcare IdeasAshoka Changemakers, United StatesOpen innovation has already created an explosive growth in innovative solutions and product ideas in a range of disciplines, encompassing such disparate fields as t-shirt designs and aeronautical engi... |
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App My RideVolkswagen, GermanyOpen innovation and in particular open innovation contests are becoming more mainstream as companies large and small look for new ways to innovate, solve problems and steal a march on their competitor... |
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Haiti Earthquake Disaster Inspires Open Innovation ContestARCHIVE (Architecture for Health In Vulnerable Environments), United StatesAfter the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010 thousands of volunteers and aid groups flocked into the impoverished country to administer food, water, first aid and to start the rebuilding efforts.... |
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Open Innovation Revs Up the Car IndustryLocal Motors, United StatesLocal Motors creates car designs through a series of open innovation and crowdsourcing initiatives. The Arizona-based company was co-founded in 2007 based on its belief that the car industry was not m... |
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Car Giant adopts Open Innovation to get into the Fast LaneBMW, GermanyCar giant BMW has for a number of years now been reaching out to engineers and innovators with open innovation and crowd sourcing initiatives. The most recent incarnation of which has been its Co-C... |
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Open Innovation Contest to Design a More Efficient ApartmentTreehugger.com "LifeEdited", United StatesBreakthrough ideas can and often do emerge by having a fresh set of eyes look at a problem. Open innovation can bring new and diverse perspectives to bear on old and familiar dilemmas which is what a... |
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Fiat Mio, the World's First Crowdsourced CarFiat, ItalyIn Sao Paulo Auto Show that happened in October 2010, Fiat launched the Fiat Mio, the world's first crowd sourced car, a futuristic concept car based on the ideas of thousands of people around the wor... |
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Open Innovation to Rebuild an EconomyThe Government of Ireland, IrelandFor a number of years now governments at all levels in numerous countries have been experimenting with open innovation. The principle aims are to provide better services for constituents and to open |
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Crystal Clear Advantages of Open InnovationSwarovski, AustriaThese days companies are tapping into an almost bottomless well of ideas; consumer creativity. Traditional business models are being tweaked and amended to favor user-generated content and open inno... |
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Better Results from a Better Pool of PeopleMUJI, JapanCustomer-led innovation is one of the most exciting developments in open innovation and it builds on the passion, ingenuity and creativity of a brand’s loyal consumers. We are no longer passive |
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Don’t Let Creativity Hit the Buffers: Turn to Open InnovationBombardier Transportation, GermanyGlobal transportation company Bombardier was looking for ways to whisk itself into the future by imagining what the interiors of trains would look like further along the track. So it organized an ope... |
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Lego Success Built on Open InnovationLego Group, Denmark... |
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Open Innovation Boost to Space ExplorationNASA, United StatesNASA has no shortage of tough technical problems to crack, and though the space agency may be packed to the rafters with top intellects it realizes that it sometimes needs external help to create solu... |
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Open Innovation Transforms Data for the Public GoodGovernment of Finland, FinlandStreams of raw data of themselves are not interesting, but they can be turned into useful applications that are of great benefit to citizens. For a number of years open innovation has been transform... |
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A Novel Way to Test for Sore ThroatsMark R. Hartman (Cornell University), United StatesTypically, an open innovation contest awards a fixed amount of money to the best solution or solutions. The seeker has its problem solved in good time and the provider not only receives financial rew... |
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Car Industry Technology Fuels Furniture InnovationGabriel Ltd, DenmarkOpen innovation is one of the most cost effective ways for companies to solve their R&D challenges. Many organizations don’t know what they don’t know and they therefore spend (some would say was... |
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Tesco’s Successful Open Innovation ExperimentTesco, United KingdomTesco is an international grocery retailer, headquartered in the UK and like many of its competitors it has expanded into the online grocery sector. For a couple of years it has been looking at ways |
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Inside Powering the Grid with the GE Ecomagination ChallengeGE, United StatesRanked the world’s second largest business by Forbes and with revenues of $157 billion, GE is a giant global conglomerate with immense resources that is constantly searching for new areas of opportu... |
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Mobile Phone Giant Reaches Out to Open Innovation IntermediaryOrange UK, United KingdomWhen companies want to boost their innovation and make best use of the wisdom of the crowd the role of open innovation brokers or intermediaries is vital to ensuring a successful outcome Most comp... |
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Open Innovation: The New Army RecruitUnited States Army, United StatesThe concept of open innovation is as beautiful as it is elegant; present a problem that needs to be solved, and someone somewhere in the world will be able to come up with the solution. Of increasi... |
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Apps for CaliforniaThe State of California, United StatesThe ballot box is not the only means by which the general public can influence the way their neighborhoods, towns and regions are run as open innovation and crowdsourcing are giving people plenty of o... |
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Open Innovation for the Future of ManagementManagement Innovation Exchange (MIX), United StatesThe fruits of open innovation are not only product-based as an OI strategy can be applied to reinventing how companies are organized to make them more streamline and effective. Launched in 2010 the... |
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Open Innovation to Boost Learning in the Developing WorldDr. Andrew Deonarine, CanadaIf your organisation has already embraced open innovation then it has joined the ranks of some of the world’s most innovative companies who have come to realise that great ideas can come from the ou... |
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Space Age Technology to Help Insomniacs Get Some SleepQuilts of Denmark, DenmarkQuilts of Denmark is a small international company, founded in 2000 that operates in more than 30 countries and produces high-quality, functional bedding. The company has engaged in open innovat... |
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On Your Bike with Open InnovationDesignboom and The Seoul Design Foundation, South KoreaIn an effort to improve its urban environment with an emphasis on eco-friendly themes, South Korea’s capital city of Seoul has launched a number of initiatives and programs. The Seoul Cycle Design |
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Crowdsourcing is Shaking Up the Business ModelMade.com, United KingdomOpen innovation and crowdsourcing are rapidly redefining business models. One such company to take advantage of the wisdom of the crowd is a UK-based furniture retailer. Made.com is an online |
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Open Innovation Contest to Cut Our Carbon FootprintGreener Gadgets Design Cometition, United StatesInnovators and entrepreneurial minds are turning their intellectual firepower on how open innovation can benefit the common good. One of the most pressing issues of our time is the damage being done |
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Crowdsourcing to Cure DiseasesCure Together, United StatesMost good doctors will freely admit that they don’t everything about a patient's condition which is why patients are advised to make accurate notes about their symptoms to help the medical professio... |
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San Francisco: Where the Powers are Investing in Open InnovationCity of San Francisco, United StatesMany people complain about the policies their governments pursue, and declare that they could do a better job if given half the chance. Well, open innovation is giving them that chance as it offers t... |
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Fiat Gets Plenty of Mileage from Open InnovationFiat, ItalyItalian car making giant Fiat has turned up the throttle on open innovation to solicit public involvement in creating the car of the future. The Fiat Mio (which translates as “my Fiat”) is a conc... |
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Open Innovation to Advance Children's LearningThe Joan Ganz Cooney Center, United StatesIn early 2010 a new US nationwide open innovation competition was launched. The goals of the inaugural Cooney Center Prizes for Innovation in Children’s Learning were to discover and nurture br... |
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Innovative Challenge ContestU.S. Economic Development Administration, United StatesEntrepreneurs, investors, non-profits, foundations and universities were all invited to take part in a US-nationwide open innovation competition designed to support the most creative ideas to drive te... |
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Open Innovation Creates Greeting Card Success StoryHallmark Cards, Inc., United StatesGreetings card manufacturer Hallmark has catapulted its products into the digital era after searching for new technologies via an open innovation broker. Greeting Card Innovation The days when... |
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Tomorrow's Designs TodayElectrolux, SwedenElectrolux opened its Design lab as an annual, global open innovation design competition in 2003, inviting undergraduate and graduate industrial design students to submit designs for futuristic househ... |
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Open Innovation StrategiesGlaxoSmithKline, United KingdomGlaxoSmithKline has delved into the "open innovation" sphere in a multitude of ways. One aspect involves developing a "patent pool" which would give access to IP, such as the assay data involved i... |
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Ecomagination ChallengeGeneral Electric, United StatesGE has delved into the open innovation arena, recently launching its Ecomagination Challenge that solicits ideas for new business ventures relating to how to build the next-generation power grid. Any... |
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Using Open Innovation to Ensure Competitive AdvantageCadbury, United KingdomIn 2006 Cadbury embraced open innovation, turning to collaboration with external partners to find solutions and innovations they could bring to market. Even though they have global sales topping $7... |
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Quirky CollaborationQuirky.com, United StatesQuirky.com takes the idea of open innovation and crowdsourcing to a whole new level. You submit your ideas for a new product, and have a community of designers, inventors, engineers and marketers, |
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Open Innovation that Benefits HumankindJames Dyson Award, United StatesThis year's winner of the James Dyson Award for innovation in the UK, goes to Timothy Whitehead, who developed a water purifying bottle that uses ultraviolet light to sterilize drinking water. The... |
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Design Contests Spark CreativityKruger Products, United StatesTaking a cue from other Fortune 500 companies, Kruger Products ran a design contest, the "Scotties Design Challenge", that asked consumers to create a new look for their popular tissue box. The id... |
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LuminAR Places the Internet AnywhereNatan Linder, United StatesThe Tony Stark Innovation Challenge chose MIT graduate student Natan Linder as the winner of its open innovation challenge. Linder's invention, the LuminAR is a digital bulb with built-in internet... |
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LG Open Innovation Contest produces 40+ Winning IdeasLG, United StatesLG Electronics third open innovation contest asked contestants to submit ideas for the next generation cell phone. More than 400 submissions were presented to LG. Of all the ideas submitted, LG deemed... |
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Cisco's I-Prize Innovation Competition goes to "Life Account" TeamCisco, United StatesAwarding it's second I-Prize of $250,000 to a team of five university students from Mexico, has gained Cisco a potential billion-dollar business idea titled: "Life Account." The idea is to gather inf... |
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Starbucks betacup open innovation contest aims to reduce Paper Cup ConsumptionIn a recent open innovation contest to reduce paper cup consumption, Starbucks has awarded the winning $10,000 idea to "<a href=http://www.jovoto.com/contests/drink-sustainably/ideas/4751 target=_blan... |
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Paper-FeetPaper-Feet, United KingdomOpen innovation offers social entrepreneurs plenty of opportunities to create new ways of addressing social needs or promote better business. Recognising both this and the power of student creati... |
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Canada's Digital CompassPricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Canada... |
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Sustainable Personal Mobility and Mobility-on-Demand SystemsMassachusetts Institute of Technology, United StatesThe <a href="http://challenge.bfi.org/" target=_blank>Buckminster Fuller Challenge</a> is an annual open innovation competition hosted by the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI). It encourages the cre... |
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GreensulateEcovative Design, United StatesOpen innovation contests have long been used by governments and organizations to accelerate the speed with which ideas are generated. They are powerful instruments that can be used by any company or |
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WayFinder NYCNew York City's Economic Development Corporation, United StatesThe Big Apple wanted some big ideas to improve government transparency and accountability and promote development of the digital media industry. So it came up with an open innovation competition to d... |
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Open Venture ChallengeCancer Research UK, United KingdomCancer Research UK, one of the UK’s leading cancer charities decided to turn to open innovation to help it raise more money to beat cancer. It was looking for fresh and new ideas to secure more fu... |
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Healthy HabitsArizona State University College of Nursing and Health Innovation, United States“Rise to the Challenge: Healthcare Innovation 2010” is the first open innovation healthcare related competition of its kind in the United States and was created to encourage participants to create... |
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Help for Ireland's EconomyAMASWith the world staring down the barrel of financial ruin as the financial crisis lays waste to economies, one enterprising country had a bright idea to help get it out of a fix – ask the public for |
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Unilever uses Collaboration to Develop Clean Water SolutionUnileverPurell is the breakthrough technology that was developed out of this collaborative effort. Launched in 2005, Purell is now bringing safe drinking water to millions of people, bringing relief from jaun... |
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Open Innovation : Multidisciplinary approachPhilips Eletronics India Ltd, Manipal University, IndiaManipal University is a name to remember, not just across the length and breadth of India, but worldwide. The fact that students from 52 countries are studying here is a testimony to this fame. Fired |
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Security JamSecurity and Defence Agenda, BelgiumOpen innovation brokers accelerate the innovation process by linking solution seekers with providers, offering technical know-how, and organising open innovation contests and online jams that bring di... |
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An Open Innovation Competition to Drive Water InnovationImagine H2O, United StatesWater scarcity is one of the world’s biggest woes, and as the climate continues to heat up the planet's governments are latching on to anything that will improve efficiencies. Many ideas have b... |
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Bank Queuing Problems Solved by Open InnovationA Commercial Bank in the United Kingdom, United KingdomWith an ever changing marketplace demanding better services and products innovation is key. The walls between companies and consumers are disappearing as boardrooms across the world recognize the imp... |
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The Great Innovator ChallengeRoyal Bank of Canada, CanadaMany companies realized long ago that internal R&D is only one part of their innovation portfolio, and it may not even be the driving force behind research efforts. The pace of change is so quick, a... |
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Novel Designs for Daimler's Smart CarDaimler, GermanyDaimler’s “Style Your Smart” open innovation contest yielded 50,000 ideas in a six week period as 8,000 participants from more than 100 countries used their creativity to help the car manufactur... |
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Applications for DemocracyGovernment of the District of Columbia, United StatesOpen innovation has been the driving force behind a number of inspiring initiatives to make governments more open and transparent. Not only do they foster better communications between citizens and |
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LifeCase and LifeApp SystemDiabetesMine, United StatesThe most innovative ideas do not always come from a discipline’s own experts, sometimes answers are provided by individuals or groups in unrelated industries. They are not constrained by a particul... |
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Big Green InnovationsIBMIBM has open innovation in its blood. Since 2001 the multinational has been holding innovation jams, where thousands of employees brainstorm ideas over a period of a few days. The first jam was an e... |
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Open Innovation Solution to a Cotton Shirts Wrinkling ProblemProcter and GambleProcter and Gamble’s decision to give its innovation model a face-lift and adopt open innovation strategies in the early part of the last decade was a daring move by the consumer products giant. I... |
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CollaboRhythmThe Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT), United StatesThe Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) launched the CIMIT Prize, a US nationwide open innovation competition in 2009. The contest will be an annual feature for the ne... |
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A Modeling System for Toddler Training PantsA Consumer Products CompanyOpen innovation has gained importance in recent years as companies from multiple industries realize they could end up as dead as a dodo if they ignore leveraging the expertise of external sources to a... |
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Active Networked Tags for Disaster Recovery ApplicationsVodafoneOne of the world’s leading telecommunications companies, Vodafone, now hosts an an open innovation competition designed to “promote innovation and increase implementation of wireless related techn... |
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Partnership Development for Hilton HotelsHilton HotelsThere is a popular and ever increasing trend amongst businesses to turn away from high-priced consultants, and their own in house teams and instead embrace open innovation contests. Hilton Hotels i... |
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Cleaving Protein Disulfide BondsA Global 500 CompanyA Global 500 company needed help with a widely known and long-standing industry problem, so it followed a course that an increasing number of companies are taking – it turned to an online open innov... |
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Dispensing Mechanism for a Powdered Material in a High Humid EnvironmentA Major Appliance ManufacturerThe traditional corporate model of only innovating from within is starting to look a bit dated. An ever increasing number of companies including major global players such as Kraft, Hewlett Packard an... |
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Mobile Phone Microscopy for the Developing World and Other IdeasIntel CorporationBusinesses are not the only beneficiaries of an open innovation approach to discovering new technologies; communities in the developing world are also benefiting from solutions to some of the most cha... |
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Novel Adhesive SystemsFasson Roll North America, a division of Avery Dennison, United StatesOpen innovation has become the hot topic in business since the publication in 2003 of Henry Chesborough’s book ‘Open Innovation: The new imperative for creating and profiting from technology’. |
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FilibustedThe Sunlight Foundation, United StatesSince the concept of open innovation first swept through the corridors of corporations in 2003 it has continually proved its mettle by helping companies find new ways of solving their most urgent prob... |
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Solution for Microwave Oven Heating ProblemA Fortune 500 Consumer Products CompanyOne of the many advantages to companies that decide to utilize open innovation is the cross boundary approach to solving technical challenges. A number of organizations have found the answers they nee... |
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Natural Food Grade Approaches to Replace Food Dyes and PigmentsGeneral Mills, United StatesGeneral Mills is a Fortune 500 corporation headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota that markets some of the world’s most popular brands including Yoplait, Pillsbury, Green Giant, Häagen-Dazs, and... |
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Suburban TrendsThe Australian Government, AustraliaOne of the most successful and powerful trends in open innovation is the concept of mashups – where a new innovative web-based service or application is created from the combination of the data or f... |
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Confidential Cheese Product SolutionA Global Dairy ManufacturerAn ever increasing number of companies – both large and small – have been reaching beyond their core competencies and adopting open innovation strategies to remain competitive in an increasingly d... |
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Mobile-Based Museum GuideAnwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen and SYSTEMS, GermanyTo access the best brains around the world and to come up with innovative and practical applications in satellite navigation Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen (an aerospace and satellite company... |
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Air Conditioning SolutionsInter-American Development Bank, PanamaIn the ceaseless search for new ideas, the open innovation landscape offers a planet full of brilliant brains with the skills to generate solutions and novel ways of thinking. Cash-based contests are... |
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Taxi2 WebsiteVirgin Atlantic, United KingdomVirgin Atlantic has been flirting with open innovation to help it come up with new web-based ideas to improve its services and boost its bank balance. Together with NESTA, the UK’s National End... |
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Development of a Valve for Packaging MaterialSealed Air Corporation, United StatesSealed Air Corp is a global manufacturer of packaging materials and systems including Bubble Wrap, and it has fully embraced open innovation to boost the bottom line. Although no strangers to wor... |
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Multiple Solutions for Packaging ProcessesGreif, Inc., United StatesGreif is a global industrial packaging products and services company with a presence in more than 45 countries. Due to an intense phase of restructuring involving mergers and acquisitions, and hot on... |
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The Big Green ChallengeNESTA, United KingdomIn 2007 an open innovation challenge was set for the entire UK – reduce carbon emissions and make a big difference to the world. A £1 million ($1.6 million USD) prize fund was set up which spurred... |
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Open Innovation Solution to a Detergent Packaging ProblemA small UK-based company, United KingdomFaulty packaging, falling sales, and a problem they couldn’t solve led Procter and Gamble to an open innovation broker to help them find a fix and reverse the decline. Packaging Problem The gl... |
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Internet-based Carpooling ServiceiCarpool.com, United StatesIn a gigantic effort to cut down on traffic congestion and reduce pollution the Intelligent Transport Society of America (ITS) launched a global open innovation competition for commuters, citizens, en... |
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Xoie - Reusable RocketMasten Space Systems, United StatesThe space agency NASA continues to develop means of exploring the solar system with down-to- earth help via open innovation contests. Lunar Lander Challenge The Lunar Lander Challenge required |
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Identifying Auxiliary Web Images Using Combination of AnalysesTewson Seeoun, Choochart Haruechaiyasek, Toshiaki Kondo, ThailandHewlett Packard wants customers to enjoy a better and greener experience when they print web pages so they sought a solution through an open innovation challenge for multimedia researchers across the |
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kReader Mobileknfb Reading Technology, Inc., United StatesMobile phone supplier Nokia is actively engaged in open innovation through its research center and via open innovation contests. Global Open Innovation Competition “Calling All Innovators” i... |
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Layered MagWheelDavid A. Gonzales II, United StatesHow we fuel the future is one of today’s biggest challenges. Increasingly corporations and research organizations are exploring open innovation avenues for new ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions.... |
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Dancing CrazyStacy Cho, United StatesHopeLab is a nonprofit research organization that looks to improve the quality of life of young people with chronic illnesses, and it ventured down the open innovation route when it was looking for ne... |
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A Novel Long-Lasting Roller for Color PrintersMichigan Molecular Institute, United StatesXerox is a corporation with impressive R&D capabilities, yet it has embraced open innovation to strengthen the potential of its own world class researchers. Stuck with a Printer Problem The comp... |
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MPrize for World’s Oldest Ever MouseProf Andrzej Bartke, United StatesInspired by the X Prize open innovation competition, the MPrize (formerly known as the “Methuselah Mouse Prize”) is a scientific research prize awarded to scientists who can successfully extend th... |
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CC Modular Mobile PhoneEmily Albinski, United StatesBy engaging with open innovation LG Mobile Phones has accessed a vast talent pool that would be far beyond the means of most companies. Not only might this lead to a new product and new customers, bu... |
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RidgeBladeDean Gregory, United KingdomThe annual Postcode Lottery Green Challenge is a major open innovation competition held in the Netherlands to encourage the creation of green products and services. It is open to individual inventor... |
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New Methodology for Ceramics ProductionWolfgang Schaerfl, GermanyCorona Ceramics, headquartered in Bogota in Columbia has been developing and manufacturing home improvement products for more than 125 years, and is now including open innovation as part of its resear... |
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OtisLaserMotive, United StatesNASA continues its bold exploration of space, but it’s not doing it alone. Increasingly the space agency is turning to open innovation competitions to help it develop the technologies it will need |
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TwoddlerBart Swennen, Gert Vos, and Johannes Taelman, BelgiumGovernments in Europe are now actively looking to web 2.0 tools and open innovation to improve public services. There is a growing body of opinion in Europe that says that the development of IT appl... |
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Dow Methane ChallengeProf Graham Hutchings, Wales, and Prof Tobin Marks, United StatesThe Dow Chemical Company is one of the largest chemical manufacturing companies in the world and though it boasts an extensive and well-funded R&D organization it is turning to open innovation to give... |
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Metal-complexing Dye and SurfactantGiorgia Sgargetta, ItalyProcter and Gamble needed help with a pressing problem. Some of their best in-house brains were unable to crack a challenge that the company had set for the creation of a new dishwashing detergent. |
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Energy Efficient Air ConditioningJohn Barrie and Dr Norbert Muller, United StatesIt gets hot in the city, and though air conditioning will cool you down and chill you out, the technology uses a lot of energy. An open innovation competition was created by two organizations in Bost... |
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An Acid Synthesis MethodDavid Bradin, United StatesOne of the benefits of open innovation is that someone somewhere may already have the answer to a problem that’s been vexing you for ages. That’s certainly what Procter and Gamble found when they... |
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One Billion RidesAaron M. Renn, United StatesChicago is notorious for its traffic problems with bottlenecks and gridlock daily occurrences experienced by many drivers. To get the city moving the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce posted an open in... |
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Method to Get Fluoride Powder into Toothpaste TubesEdward Melcarek, CanadaColgate-Palmolive turned to open innovation to help it solve a challenge that had bewildered and bemused its R&D department. After many failed attempts the R&D types at Colgate-Palmolive could only... |
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BoGo Light SN2Russell McMahon, New ZealandMark Bent, CEO of SunNight Solar turned to open innovation to help create a better design for the solar-powered flashlight that he had created for the developing world. Solar Solution A former m... |
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Preliminary Biomarkers for a Fatal Degenerative DiseaseSeward Rutkove and Dr. Harvey Arbesman, United StatesPrize4Life, a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding new cures and treatments for ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) has turned to open innovation to speed u... |
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Solar-Powered Mosquito TrapTom Kruer, United StatesIt is thanks to open innovation that millions of malaria carrying mosquitoes will be breathing their last. Human sweat, sunlight and paraffin wax are the main ingredients of a groundbreaking trap that... |
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Solar-Powered Wireless RouterZacary Brown, United StatesASSET India is dedicated to alleviating poverty in the subcontinent by providing IT skills and opportunities to victims of trafficking and children of sex workers. The foundation adopted an open innov... |
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Open Notebook ScienceProfessor Jean-Claude Bradley, United StatesJean-Claude Bradley is Associate Professor of Chemistry at Drexel University and has worked in many laboratories throughout his scientific career. One aspect of lab life has always irritated him and |
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UshahidiOry Okolloh, KenyaEven though we live in a 24 hour news society the mainstream media is not large enough to cover every story when it breaks. During crisis situations there is hardly ever a centralized place for repor... |
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Drug Manufacturing Process for PA-824, am Anti-TB DrugDr. Kana M Sureshan, IndiaWhen the non-profit Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) needed to solve some drug manufacturing problems it turned to open innovation for the answers. Tuberculosis is an infectiou... |
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NASA uses Open Innovation Contest to develop MoonrakerPaul's Robotics, United StatesIf humans are ever going to live on the moon or indeed if we are to harness some of its natural resources we’re going to need the tools to be able to dig up and dump thousands of tones of lunar soil... |
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Dye Sensitized Thin Film Solar CellsG24 Innovations, United KingdomIt is a sobering thought; there are currently 1.7 billion people around the world without electricity. The problem is at its most acute in Sub-Saharan Africa where more than five hundred million peop... |
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Open Innovation: Astronaut GlovePeter Homer, United StatesOut in the cold depths of space an astronaut’s glove can swell up like a balloon. It becomes stiff, stubborn and rigid, making the handling and manipulation of objects extremely onerous. It is a pr... |
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Open Innovation: Glycerin for Art RestorationDrew Buschhorn, United StatesCyclododecane is a wax-like organic compound that was used by art conservationists as a temporary sealant for weak and fragile objects. It worked well, but it was very expensive and not particularly... |
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Open Innovation: Bagel-fulsGary Schwartzberg, United StatesWhen Irene Rosenfeld flew into the top job at Kraft in 2006 she inherited a company that was losing market share, in part due to its lackluster production pipeline. The pressure was on for the big ch... |
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Open Innovation: Pringles PrintBakery in Bologna, ItalyProcter and Gamble are open innovation giants, with more than 35% of their new ideas coming from outside sources. However, it hasn’t always been this way. Historically P&G relied on internal r... |
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Open Innovation: Diabetes Genetics InitiativeBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard University - USA, Lund University from Sweden, and Novartis from Switzerland, United StatesType 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes, where the body does not produce enough insulin, or the insulin that is produced is abnormal. The condition affects more than 170 million people a... |
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Open Innovation: Smart GridAnna Gossen and Niels Gossen from Germany, Sergey Bessonnitsyn from Russia, GermanyCisco, the computer networking giant created a global contest to come up with new ideas and markets that would fuel its future. Business Opportunities Cisco’s I-Prize developed out of the comp... |
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Open Innovation: DocumentCloudEric Umansky, Scott Klein, Aron Pilhofer, Ben Koski, United StatesFirst there were newspapers, then television, and now it’s the Internet. The media landscape is moving fast with new technologies forever changing the way that news is delivered and received. News... |
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Open Innovation: Netflix PrizeBellKor’s Pragmatic ChaosIt was the three-year computer competition that had mathematicians, statisticians, software engineers and cyber geeks from all over the world working feverishly toward a $1 million prize. The chall... |
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Open Innovation: Goldcorp ChallengeFractal Graphics, and Taylor Wall & Associates, AustraliaRob McEwen was sitting on a fortune; the trouble was he didn’t know exactly where it was located. It’s the year 2000 and the CEO of Goldcorp Inc., a gold producer headquartered in Vancouver, Ca... |
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Open Innovation: Exxon Valdez CleanupJohn Davis, United StatesDespite extensive cleanup efforts more than 26 thousand US gallons of oil remained at the bottom of Prince William Sound, nearly twenty years after the Exxon Valdez ran aground. The oil tanker had |
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Open Innovation: X-PrizeBurt Rutan, United StatesEver since Yuri Gagarin whistled round the Earth aboard Vostok 1 and Neil Armstrong made his giant leap for mankind millions of ordinary mortals have entertained the thought, “Gee I wouldn’t mind |