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The Open Innovation Renaissance
The Manufacturer website noted that prize competitions have long been used to solve problems. But despite their usage in the 1800s and 1900s, prize competitions languished throughout much of the 20th century. However, a communications and information-driven renaissance is driving a resurgence in open innovation that is taking it from an occasionally-used,
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Will Your R&D Project Generate New Business?
The R&D website describes the strategy of Open Design Thinking, which combines two well established innovation methods. The first method is Design Thinking—working with a cross-disciplinary team the process involves walking in prospective users’ shoes, generating creative ideas from these experiences.
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Help Shape the Future of Deep Space Exploration
The PRNewswire website reported that the science and space learning center Space Center Houston, innovation firm NineSigma and NASA’s Centennial Challenges Program announced the launch of the Space Robotics Challenge. The $1 million challenge will help further space exploration while inspiring
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Prize Competitions Help Agencies Innovate
The Meritalk website reported that the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has released a report that shows that public sector prize competitions for innovative technology in the 2015 fiscal year have increased in capability and impact. “Over the past 7 years, the Obama Administration
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Nokia Open Innovation Challenge
The Nokia Networks website announced the Nokia Open Innovation Challenge which is looking for futuristic technologies, the next big ideas and new business models in the Internet of things domain. Innovators, startups or academia from around the world can participate in this challenge and take a leap
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DARPA: A Case Study in Open Innovation
The Digitalgov website reported that a number of ingredients help DARPA come up with and execute good ideas. And the agency often gets ideas from building communities of practice in specific areas, often spurred on by open competition and collaboration. DARPA has listed several challenge competitions
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Open Innovation: From the Exotic to the Everyday
The Innocentive website noted that as with all new technologies, methodologies and working paradigms, initial excitement could be misplaced and in fact create a bubble from which the process may never recover. However crowdsourcing and open innovation have been delivering outcomes for the past fifteen
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Challenge.gov Crosses New Milestone in Open Innovation
The digitalgov.gov website noted that Challenge.gov, the official website for crowdsourcing and prize competitions across government, celebrated its five-year anniversary in October 2015. Now, not even one year later, the site has reached another milestone. On Monday, two agencies launched new challenges,
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Nokia’s Open Innovation Challenge to Develop the IoT
The PCTech website reported that Nokia has launched its 4th annual Open Innovation Challenge, focusing now on the Internet of Things (IoT) for public safety, connected automotive, industry 4.0, digital health, utilities, security and smart cities. In the coming years, IoT will bring novel ways to simplify
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