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“I want to change how scientists think about their data.” It’s a noble pursuit, and one that really could have global implications if it can achieve the kind of data-sharing and project...
A presentation by Gregory Phelan, during the public symposium ("Crowdsourcing: Improving the Quality of Scientific Data Through Social Networking") in Washington, D.C. held last June 13,...
ResearchGate is the largest scientific network online with over 1 million members. ResearchGate facilitates scientific collaboration on a global scale. Furthermore, ResearchGate enables you...
CDD is the world’s first platform for cloud-based collaborative drug discovery. Today, CDD is used by thousands of scientists from leading research foundations, academia and industry.
LOS ANGELES, California – May 8, 2012 - massolution™, a research firm specializing in crowdsourcing and crowdfunding solutions, released its first comprehensive Crowdfunding Industry Report. After collecting data from more than 170 crowdfunding platforms (CFPs) and other sources, the results revealed that CFPs raised almost $1.5 billion and successfully funded more than one million campaigns in 2011 and will raise nearly $3b in 2012. The majority of these campaigns were in the donation-based category totaling 1,067 campaigns, and North America was the largest market for fundraising at $837 million.
ResearchGate's mission is to accelerate scientific discovery by enabling scientists to share success, failures, and best practices across disciplines. Scientists world-wide are flocking to the...
Crowdsourcing is a collaboration model enabled by people-centric web technologies to solve individual, organizational, and societal problems using a dynamically formed crowd of people who respond...
Shannon Spanhake believe that Open Innovation can be a method of governance to solve civic challenges. That Open Innovation platforms can be built to customize government services to create better...
We recently learned from the fine folks at CommunityLeader about how crowdfunding is poised to help all sorts of businesses, and we've already got another powerhouse live event on schedule to help you take stock of where the emerging crowdfunding industry is at with a little under six months to go until the SEC hopes to complete its rulemaking.
The next in our series of online events around crowdfunding and the JOBS Act is coming up in just a few days, and while we've already had scores of folks register to participate in this exclusive webinar, you can still register now and join us Wednesday, July 18 at 11 am Pacific Daylight Time.
Any substantive discussion of collaborative knowledge in the 21st century should begin with Wikipedia. A holy grail of information on everything from Plato to Play-Doh, the site is undoubtedly the largest repository of knowledge in the world. Featuring over 20 million articles written solely by volunteers, with nearly four million in English, Wikipedia is the sixth largest site on the Internet, behind only Google, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo and the Chinese language search engine Baidu. Incredibly, it is a non-profit, operating with just 95 staff members and 679 servers; the crowd both authors and supports the world’s most comprehensive encyclopedia.
Forbes contributor Raul Chao shares some of his thoughts on what Open Innovation is all about.
On Monday Crowdsourcing.org hosted our fourth crowdfunding live chat and below is the full transcript of the conversation as promised. The discussion included the official announcement of the creation of the Crowdfunding Professional Association. A detailed statement on CfPA also immediately followed the conclusion of the live chat. CfPA will act as a sister organization to CFIRA, and answers to plenty more questions about the new organization can be found in this full transcript:
Our fifth crowdfunding live chat took place here on Crowdsourcing.org yesterday. The discussion continued to center around how the industry will take shape and the regulatory framework that will govern it. A very lively and informative discussion, as always.
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.
To get a better understanding of how Lufthansa's Air Cargo Innovation Challenge works, we got in touch with Erik Feder, the project manager behind the contest. Feder took some time to explain HYVE’s role in putting the contest together and to give his thoughts on what makes a successful open innovation challenge.
Victor Henning, a co-founder, and his colleagues decided to link the researchers and to build an online research database, using the concept of crowdsourcing. The London-based site has evolved into...
Founded in 2010, the industry website, Crowdsourcing.org, is a neutral organization dedicated solely to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. As one of the most influential and credible authorities in the crowdsourcing space, Crowdsourcing.org is recognized worldwide for its intellectual capital, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding practice expertise and unbiased thought leadership.
