How to Stay Agile in a Fast Changing World
The YourStory website noted that with companies going digital, they are able to directly connect with customers and engage with them to co-develop products, understand their challenges, and get new ideas going using crowdsourcing, open innovation, and communities. The close engagement with customers provides companies ample opportunities to understand
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Open Innovation Challenge: Next Big Thing for Corn
The KTIC website reported that the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), along with innovation facilitator NineSigma, has announced the launch of a global competition to identify new and innovative uses for field corn. “Many industries are adopting an open innovation approach because of its success
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Need a Breakthrough? Offer Prize Money!
The Wall Street Journal website noted that, stumped for solutions to hundreds of industrial and technical problems, businesses and governments alike are turning the search for innovative ideas into prize-worthy puzzles that capitalize on the ingenuity of the crowd. These incentive competitions are part
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AES Launches Open Innovation Contest
Businesswire reported that the AES Corporation announced an open innovation contest targeted at improving the safety and increasing availability of power plants through unmanned inspections in extreme heat. AES in partnership with NineSigma is looking for innovative unmanned technologies to conduct inspection
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Canada to Reinvent Dairy Products Thru Open Innovation
The Wisconsinagconnection website reported that Agropur Cooperative, in partnership with the Quartier de l’innovation de Montreal, AgBioCentre and NineSigma, have announced the launch of Inno Challenge, an initiative to create new dairy products through open innovation. This is a Canadian first
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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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How to Build Trust in Open Innovation
The R&DMagazine website noted that companies today recognize the value of embracing open innovation and tapping an outside pool of experts to help them compete and grow by accelerating their innovations. At the same time, scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs and research labs see how working with
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Could Open Innovation Make Your Ambitions Take Flight?
The TechCityNews website reported that open approaches to innovation have a long track record of success. Open challenges have been used to achieve ambitions as diverse as preserving food, the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris, and cleaning up the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Often the solution
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NineSigma Announces Winners of Innovation Challenges
The Satprnews website posted an article in which the innovation firm NineSigma announced the winners of two Innovation Challenges they managed on behalf of NASA Tournament Lab: the Space Suit Textile Testing Challenge in collaboration with the Advanced SpaceSuit Project team and the In-Situ Materials
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