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Use of sources outside of the entity or group to generate, develop and implement ideas. In a world of widely distributed knowledge, where the boundaries between a firm and its environment have become more permeable, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research and ideas to maintain a competitive advantage.

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Idea Transformer
site Open Innovation / Idea Generation

Idea Transformer is an open innovation site, helping people to create fantastic ideas for new projects, teams, businesses and social enterprises. It takes the form of a Question/Answer community...

Archenette EvangelioMay 19, 2013 04:15 am GMT295 views
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Idea Transformer
site Open Innovation / Idea Generation

Idea Transformer is an open innovation site, helping people to create fantastic ideas for new projects, teams, businesses and social enterprises. It takes the form of a Question/Answer community...

Archenette EvangelioMay 19, 2013 04:15 am GMT295 views
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Idea Transformer
Marblar
site Open Innovation / Idea Generation

Marblar is crowdsourcing applications for emerging and dormant technology. Marblar is a community that engages creative minds from around the world to chew on interesting science. Marblar...

Archenette EvangelioMay 18, 2013 11:51 am GMT570 views
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Marblar
How Collaboration and Open Innovation Builds Businesses and Industries
article Open Innovation

Moving from company-level team collaboration to industry-grade, business-to-business sharing can seem like a quantum leap for organizations unprepared to disclose strategic plans.-But it’s...

Luis Enrique MoralesMay 18, 2013 03:28 am GMT389 views
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How Collaboration and Open Innovation Builds Businesses and Industries
Can A Crowdsourcing Invention Company Become 'The Best Retailer In The World?'
article Open Innovation

Here’s how it works. Once a product is out of the chute, crowdsourcing site-Quirky sells it to retail partners at wholesale.Ten cents of every revenue dollar is held as a royalty for those who...

Rebecca GutierrezMay 17, 2013 01:22 pm GMT186 views
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Can A Crowdsourcing Invention Company Become 'The Best Retailer In The World?'
Crowdsourcing - Increase agility and reduce cost when building enterprise solutions
video Crowdfunding, Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovation

The rapid pace of technology development is not being matched by the IT skills in the workplace. Crowdsourcing can help you deliver the applications your customers and employees need without having...

Jason RobbinsMay 17, 2013 12:08 pm GMT155 views
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Crowdsourcing - Increase agility and reduce cost when building enterprise solutions
The world's smallest cell phone charger Fuel gets $81,329 via crowdfunding
article Crowd Creativity, Crowdfunding, Open Innovation

The Devotec Fuel Micro Charger is the smallest emergency phone charger, and its 220 milliAmp hour battery is designed to give you around 20-30 min extra talk time, or up to a few hours more...

Startup TankMay 17, 2013 05:29 am GMT499 views
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The world's smallest cell phone charger Fuel gets $81,329 via crowdfunding
Quirky's Crowdsourcing, JCPenney Logo Damage, Ipsos' Shelley Zalis (RBDR 5/15/2013)
video Open Innovation

1) Forbes' May 27th issue has a terrific feature on Quirky's a crowdsourcing firm focused on using its capabilities to become "the world's best retailer." 2) According to...

Jason RobbinsMay 17, 2013 02:11 am GMT458 views
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 Quirky's Crowdsourcing, JCPenney Logo Damage, Ipsos' Shelley Zalis (RBDR 5/15/2013)
Solar Conduction Dryer Wins Grand Prize in 2013 Dell Social Innovation Challenge
document Open Innovation

Solar Conduction Dryer aims to address the 20 to 30 percent food spoilage rate for poor rural Indian farmers,via cost-effective dehydrators powered by solar conduction.The innovation will enable...

Pablo BracciniMay 16, 2013 12:50 pm GMT509 views
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Solar Conduction Dryer Wins Grand Prize in 2013 Dell Social Innovation Challenge
Dell Inc. : Solar Conduction Dryer Wins Grand Prize in 2013 Dell Social Innovation Challenge
article Open Innovation, Tools

Citizen Power, a German team, is building a peer-to-peer online social platform for crowdsourcing urban solar installations. SOURCE LINK to the full article:...

Claire MackayMay 16, 2013 05:16 am GMT513 views
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Dell Inc. : Solar Conduction Dryer Wins Grand Prize in 2013 Dell Social Innovation Challenge
Fertile Ground for the Ideation Seed
article Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovation, Tools

Depending on the people involved, their motivations, and the phase of the moon, you may or may not find fertile ground for the practice of collaborative innovation. In this article innovation...

Doug CollinsMay 15, 2013 04:34 am GMT384 views
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Fertile Ground for the Ideation Seed
Deloitte, XPRIZE and Singularity University Form Alliance and Launch the Innovation Partnership Program
document Open Innovation

The announcement was made jointly by Dr. Peter H. Diamandis , chairman and chief executive officer of XPRIZE and executive chairman of Singularity University; Rob Nail , associate founder and...

Fiona MaresMay 14, 2013 12:57 pm GMT795 views
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Deloitte, XPRIZE and Singularity University Form Alliance and Launch the Innovation Partnership Program
Yaletown Venture Partners Portfolio CEOs Named to TechWomen Canada
article Open Innovation

Yaletown Venture Partners congratulates Shelley Kuipers, Founder and CEO of Chaordix and Co-Founders Christine Sommers and Kirsten Koppang Telford of ePACT Networks on their selection to...

ChaordixMay 13, 2013 08:10 pm GMT290 views
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Yaletown Venture Partners Portfolio CEOs Named to TechWomen Canada
Ritter Sport designs new chocolate snack product via crowdsourcing
document Crowd Creativity, Open Innovation

Ritter Sport, the German chocolate company, is crowdsourcing its latest product. Via an innovation contest and a collaborating crowd they aim for developing a trendy chocolate snack. The best...

Thomas MackMay 13, 2013 07:01 pm GMT529 views
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Ritter Sport designs new chocolate snack product via crowdsourcing
Donald Trump Wants To FundAnything - The Crowded Room #23
Crowd Creativity, Crowdfunding, Open Innovation

In this full half-hour version of the Crowded Room podcast, Episode 23, Eric Mack, Eric Blattberg and Anton Root cover all the week's headlines and go in-depth to discuss Donald Trump's new crowdfunding venture and the notion of Quirky stores coming to a city near you... or at least to Oklahoma City.

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Eric MackMay 12, 2013 01:48 pm GMT1276 views
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Gotta Raise Cash
video Crowdfunding, Open Innovation, Tools

We are collaborative wealth sharing at it's best! We provide a fun, safe, and secure crowdfunding platform for individuals to empower each other via wealth sharing! We make crowdfunding each...

Luke FlintMay 11, 2013 12:09 pm GMT669 views
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Gotta Raise Cash
First Look: Fab Unveils The Winners Of Its Design Open Call
article Open Innovation

Fab announced another initiative for expanding its offerings: a crowdsourced competition, calling for designers around the world to submit their ideas for the company’s next big product. Now,...

Claire MackayMay 10, 2013 09:39 am GMT359 views
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First Look: Fab Unveils The Winners Of Its Design Open Call
Open innovation: 4 ideas for teamsourcing employees
article Open Innovation

If ready to begin harvesting the full bounty of latent knowledge-and-creativity, here are a few ideas to get started: 1.Quarterly quandary–struggling to meet quarterly goals? Try sourcing...

Tim SatterthwaiteMay 10, 2013 06:10 am GMT502 views
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Open innovation: 4 ideas for teamsourcing employees
$144,463 were raised on crowdfunding by the Elroy project
article Crowd Creativity, Crowdfunding, Open Innovation

If you use earbuds you know the continual annoyance of the tangled cord. Authors' solution is to get rid of the lower 2/3 of the cord and replace it with a bluetooth unit clipped to your...

Startup TankMay 08, 2013 07:46 am GMT887 views
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$144,463 were raised on crowdfunding by the Elroy project
9 of the World's Top 10 Brands Are Crowdsourcing
Cloud Labor, Crowd Creativity, Open Innovation

Every business in the world can learn from these top brands who are tapping into the power of crowdsourcing to create brand value.

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Crowdsourcing.orgMay 06, 2013 10:00 pm GMT3575 views
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Announcing IX Research - Research for Innovation Practitioners
article Crowd Creativity, Open Innovation, Tools

IX Research is the newly-launched research arm of Innovation Excellence. Our goal is to provide Innovation Executives, Innovation Practitioners, and Innovation Vendors with the data, insights, and...

Braden KelleyMay 05, 2013 08:17 pm GMT709 views
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Announcing IX Research - Research for Innovation Practitioners
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