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Open Innovation to Identify New Tools to Combat the Opioid Crisis
The Newswise website noted that the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is prioritizing swift interventions to help address the opioid crisis, and using open innovation to expediently source new tools to counter the supply side of the crisis. In February, S&T launched the Opiod Detection Challenge, a $1.55
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Advancing Biological Research Through Open Innovation Competitions
The Harvard Business School website posted an article which noted that researchers use open innovation competitions to benchmark their solutions to a particular computational problem, or to generalize their methodologies to instances of the problem for which a solution is unknown. Past examples demonstrate
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Explorer Challenge To Predict Next Big Mineral Deposit in South Australia
The Mining.com website reported that energy and resources open innovation platform Unearthed joined forces with Adelaide-based OZ Minerals to launch the Explorer Challenge, a competition that brings together data scientists, geoscientists and mining professionals to create machine learning-based mining
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Solve Launches 2019 Global Challenges
The MIT News website reported that MIT Solve Executive Director Alex Amouyel announced the launch of Solve’s newest set of global challenges: Circular Economy, Community-Driven Innovation, Early Childhood Development, and Healthy Cities. “Through open innovation, we find the most promising tech-based
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Using Technology, Innovation to Solve Climate Change
The website The Hill noted that open innovation — prizes and challenges — is one method to build incentives to tackle the problem of climate change. Open innovation’s breakthrough effect can galvanize others to enter into a space or jumpstart the flow of private capital by serving as a
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HealthTech Innovation
The Newswire website reported that the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge pairs leading-edge startups from around the world with prominent health and life sciences organizations, to develop innovative technology solutions that improve the way people access and manage healthcare. In its third year,
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How Johnson & Johnson Works With Startups
The NJ Tech Weekly website reported on a meeting of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) New Jersey called “Implementing Open Innovation: Lessons from Leaders”. John Bell, vice president of external innovation for Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Consumer, said that while the multi-billion
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Ayasdi Named Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge Champion
The WLNS website reported that Ayasdi has been named the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge Champion, competing with more than 1,100 companies for the title. The competition pairs leading-edge startups with prominent health and life sciences organizations to develop innovative technology solutions
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Syngenta Crop Challenge
The AP News website reported that the Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics has been launched. The challenge is a collaborative effort between Syngenta and the Analytics Society of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, the leading international association for operations
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SPARK Microsystems Wins Nokia Open Innovation Challenge
The Nasdaq website reported that SPARK Microsystems has been named the winner of the Nokia Open Innovation Challenge 2018 for developing a low-power wireless transceiver for the industrial Internet of Things. Marcus Weldon, CTO of Nokia, said, “SPARK Microsystems was selected as the winner
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