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This paper finds that (1) open innovation is dynamic, (2) all commercial open innovation is always managed or controlled, and that (3) actors and modalities of exchanges are heterogeneous and...
With the new model CrowdIPR now allows basic research projects to crowdsource up to 30 references for free. It's curious to explore using a freemium model with crowdsourcing, but the company...
Here are a few insights gained and reflections made by Stefan Lindegaard and the other participants after attending a session on IPR and open innovation: The business case should take lead...
If the founder is equipped to handle the challenge, then sites like Kickstarter will work. If the founder is completely new to the field of monetizing ideas, then leaving the heavy lifting to sites...
BluePatent is a watchdog against product piracy and invalid patents. Through crowdsourcing a global internet comunity can participate in this effort. We publish search requests for companies...
This week’s news that researchers at Cern (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland are publishing their results “so other scientists can determine if the approach contains any mistakes” represents a huge leap forward for Open Science.
The science community is traditionally a “closed” community, probably at the insistence of the large pharmaceutical organizations who insist on this as a method of protecting the intellectual property rights on any research they fund. While there have been moves within the science community to share research online as a means of “crowdsourcing” the work and speeding up discovery, science seems to be way behind other disciplines in actually getting the information out there.
While it makes perfect sense to many researchers to open up research projects for collaboration, the companies that sponsor and fund research laboratories worldwide are keen to keep the lid on research results and new developments due to the immense amounts of money to be made from new drugs, medical procedures and technological/industrial applications.
Reddit is a source for what's new and popular on the web. They hold a (non-exclusive) license to any content that its users create while using the service. And Erwin put it in his...
On Crowdspring the average contributor has close to 10 years of experience in the design industry (one out of 10 Crowdspring creative have more than 20 years of experience). In addition, their...
We profile the non-profit Creative Barcode, which aims to help individuals keep IP for their creations, and explain how it may be used by crowdfunding campaign owners and platforms alike.
In the last few days, two of the leading global media outlets, The New York Times and The Economist, had quite extensive articles on user innovation, customization, and co-creation.
On February 10, 2011, on page C1 of the New York edition of The New York Times, Patricia Cohen writes about "Innovation Far Removed From the Lab",
The article is a great praise and acknowledgment of the work done by Eric von Hippel.
In the first part of this article I described which types of crowdsourcing currently exist and the benefits of crowdsourcing. In part two, I now explore some of the drawbacks of crowdsourcing.
There are a number of key issues to consider when conducting a crowdsourcing project that have the potential to materially impact the outcome. The potential drawbacks of crowdsourcing often stem from the fact that in crowdsourcing initiatives, online volunteers instead of companies own staff members are executing the work. The use of ‘outside’ workers can present some challenges which I'm going to explore accross the following areas to highlight the potential drawbacks of working with crowds.
When utilized as an innovation tool and implemented correctly, crowdsourcing initiatives can achieve valuable solutions for businesses by generating new and high quality ideas. A recently published list from Harvard Business Review’s Blog provides a compilation of guidelines that advise what crowdsourcing campaigns should focus on.
Open Innovation: The Challenges and Solutions event at the British Library (last November 29, 2011) brought together some of Europe's leading open innovation experts to debate and address the...
Two weeks ago, we published a piece that discussed the state of open innovation (OI). In order to get the most current information for my story, I spoke with several executives from a number of leading OI companies. Today, I am sharing my very enlightening conversation with InnoCentive’s Vice President of Marketing Steve Bonadio.
Innovation Bank is an ethical trading platform. In a safe trading environment it enables all members of the innovation community - professionals, businesses, IP rights holders, Creators,...
iStockphoto is the web's original source of royalty-free stock images, media and design elements. For over 10 years artists, designers and photographers from all over the world have come here...
The crowdsourcing movement began to take shape 10 years ago, and has grown dramatically in recent years as a new model for getting work done. Crowdsourcing enables the rapid co-creation of complex...
High speed science - will it save lives?
Amid concern that the Peer Review process may hold back speedy solutions, and with little financial incentive to improve drugs to make them more effective, Open Science projects are springing up all over the web. Here’s the lowdown on some of the problems and solutions facing experimental lab research and some of the innovative projects that are emerging as a result.
Matthew Todd, an organic chemist from the University of Sydney’s School of Chemistry used a Google Tech Talk as a platform to preach the spirit of openness that is part of the Google ethos in the hope that this openness can be widely adopted by the scientific community.
OpenInvo is a marketplace for ideas and a platform for innovation. We aim to fuel innovation and close the distance between inspiration and opportunity by acting as a bridge between people with...
The GenBank database is designed to provide and encourage access within the scientific community to the most up to date and comprehensive DNA sequence information. Therefore, NCBI places no...
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.
