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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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
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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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How to Transform Our Energy System
The Scientific American website noted that we can rapidly solve the problems of our energy system with global and exponential approaches. For example, the remarkable drop in the price per kilowatt-hour of solar photovoltaic cells has drawn analogies to Moore’s Law of exponential growth in computer
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