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Taking a page from France's crowdsourced financing program--the Fonds Communs de Placements dans l'Innovation, which has raised more than 6 million euros in the past 15 years--the BIA is...
All kinds of innovated solutions can be crowdsourced. For example, Proctor & Gamble have achieved their objective of increasing external development of new products from 20% to 35% by using...
J&J had been looking for several months to open an incubator-type facility in the Bay Area and has been active in trying to translate lab discoveries into the clinic as well. It is,for...
Launcht CEO Freeman White will speak today at the Mid-Atlantic Biotech Conference about “Novel Funding Sources in the Life Sciences Industry.” The Mid-Atlantic Bio is a prestigious biotech...
ANTABIO, the biopharmaceutical antibacterial drug discovery company, and WiSEED, the French crowdfunding platform dedicated to innovative & technologic startups, announce the successful...
Crowdsourcing the mapping of human microflora can be exactly the kind of complement that researchers need to advance the understanding of this complex problem. Sequencing all of the bacteria in the...
Now a new crowdsourcing effort is underway to tackle the ash dieback disease declared endemic in the UK that threatens the 129,000 hectares of woodland that Britain's 80M ash trees cover. Some...
The worst outbreak of its kind on record, the event highlighted a new form of scientific cooperation -- crowdsourcing -- in which a genetic sequence of the bacteria was released into the public...
With the internet as your pipeline, anyone, anywhere can do the refining, distilling a model from the data using their particular skillset. The implications are tremendous—no matter the problem,...
Asked on the LinkedIn Crowdfunding Panel, organized by the blog Crowdfunder.org, where crowdfunding “does not fit,” David Geertz, founder of the crowdfunding platform SoKap, replied: “An example...
Which platforms offer crowdfunding for medical device development or general healthcare / biotech / life science technology companies?
The startup uBiome is crowdsourcing the sequencing and mapping of the human microbiome. This biotech out of UCSF’s Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QB3) is looking to work with citizen...
According to Paul Sloane, there's a need to teach students that is fine to collaborate and to use other people’s ideas to solve a problem. The current educational system often describes this...
Lilly thinks applying these tests to a much wider set of promising compounds could speed development of drugs to fight cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, osteoporosis, and other diseases. Giving...
CrowdFlower hopes that results like these will encourage more scientists, labs, and biotech firms to crowdsource pieces of their research. They believe this could free up their time for more...
J&J is thinking big, but starting small. The first disease network being announced with this effort is for post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, a big concern for the U.S....
TechMoola.com co-founder Solomon Nabatiyan shares a little of the inspiration behind the crowdfunding platform.
Elsewhere, Pfizer continues to expand its network of CTI collaborations first established last year. Company scientists and academic researchers work in jointly staffed and jointly managed...
Kaggle plans to instead take a cut of the prize money and also to emphasize invitation-only competitions. The idea is to let companies put sensitive information on Kaggle and have only 10 to 15...
SOL’s innovative green program will improve student performance as well as increase energy efficiency in schools by eliminating the shortage of exposure to full-spectrum light caused by low quality...
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