Winners Announced in OI Mental Health Challenge
The Sacramento Bee website reported that Scientists Without Borders, a program of the New York Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Johnson & Johnson, has announced the winners of a $10,000 open innovation challenge that called for ideas to increase awareness and utilization of mental health
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AHA Using Crowdfunding to Find Next Big Thing in Health
The Reuters website reported that the American Heart Association (AHA) is using crowdfunding, the process of soliciting small donations from a large number of people, to identify the most innovative technologies in the field of cardiovascular health. In its first-ever Open Innovation Challenge, the
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10 Reasons Open Innovation Can Fail
The WeThinq website noted that Open innovation can be a powerful force. When hundreds of people collaborate openly things can evolve in all kinds of creative ways. That kind of energy is fantastic to see and ideas can spread like wild fire and comments come in by the minute. Hack-a-thons, idea contests,
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American Heart Assoc. Open Innovation Challenge
The WebCityNews website reported that the American Heart Association has set up its first Open Innovation Challenge which was launched to find innovative tools that would help its efforts to lower the risk of heart disease and stroke. The 10 finalists are running 30-day campaigns on the medical crowdfunding
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GE Quests for Better Hospitals and More Efficient Flying
The IdeaConnection website reported that instead 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 those is General Electric (GE) a company that has long embraced open innovation.
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Netflix Challenge: ‘More Shots on Goal’
The Harvard Magazine website posted an article which noted that in citizen science, crowdsourcing has largely focused on relatively simple, discrete tasks: classifying images of galaxies, for instance. But both research and industry are beginning to explore how open-ended goals like innovation can benefit
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Open Innovation Challenge for DOW
An article in the Wall Street Journal asks what do you get when you combine the untapped potential of a game-changing chemistry with the power of open innovation from a host of science, technology and applications experts? A truly unique crowd sourcing competition from Dow and InnoCentive, that offers
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Open Innovation Challenge in Pakistan
The Business Recorder website reported that Pakistan Innovation Foundation (PIF) and Indus Motor Company (IMC) have announced the launch of National Innovation Grand Challenge (NICG) 2013-14,with objective to solve challenges of the country in areas including agriculture, energy, rural development,
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Competition for Smarter Cities and Businesses
The Silicon Republic website reported that The European Union is offering €400,000 in prizes for new applications that can be used to build smarter cities and smarter businesses. Judged by specialized engineers from the EU-funded FI-WARE Consortium, the only condition of the competition is that app
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Rethinking R and D
The Know IT website posted an article which noted that the rise in “open innovation” contests has helped companies broaden their research and development while reducing their cost and risk of failure. Such contests easily reach large numbers of external problem solvers with a variety
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