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Sir Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust, is a keen advocate of transparency, calling particularly on scientists with public funding to make the results of their research freely and widely...
Last week Transparency Life Sciences launched as the world’s first drug development company that is based on Open Innovation. Crowdsourcing.org takes a look at Open Innovation in the scientific community to see how this could work in the world of medicine.
Over the past decade, Open Innovation has emerged as a leading business trend that has transformed the way enterprises approach all aspects of product development, from R&D through marketing and branding and even to post-sales support. By “opening the doors” to new ideas generated by others outside their own walls (including in many cases their customers!), companies have found new ways to leverage external knowledge to build better products.
In a special presentation, “Jumping on the Open Innovation Band Wagon: Oh, What a Tune It Plays!”, award-winning columnist Mike Rainone of Product Design and Development Magazine will reflect upon...
The crowdsourced world continued to grow the past few weeks from the continuing boom in crowdfunding platforms to new open innovation partnerships. Here's a few recent highlights.
The open innovation campus is backed by £38m of funding from its founding partners – GlaxoSmithKline, the Wellcome Trust, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Technology Strategy...
It's been a spring season (in the Northern hemisphere at least) dominated by the crowdfunding news coming out of the U.S., but as we prepare to move into summer, the power of the crowd to create and innovate will begin to share a little more of the spotlight. I'd like to share with you two events of interest we've marked on our calendar, and a newly minted crowdsourcing pundit to watch for in the coming weeks as well:
Last week, five exciting platforms caught our eyes: DesignCrowd, Rock The Post, FundaGeek, PyBossa, and GetFunded. This week, we are highlighting two more platforms, Jammio and Localstake, as well as an open innovation initiative by the University of Cambridge.
Open innovation intermediaries are becoming increasingly mature and specific in the services they offer. I spoke with a handful of open innovation leaders and found the path to expansion and further maturity lies in the potential of collaboration and building like-minded and motivated communities of problem solvers.
A video on Patrick Vallance, President, Pharmaceuticals R&D, GlaxoSmithKline.
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.
Listen to our bite-sized podcast of the week's top crowdsourcing and crowdfunding headlines, in which we cover all the most important developments in the industries and the broader world of the crowd, and all in less than 10 minutes.
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