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Global Security Challenge 2013 – Finalists Announced! 21 Aug 2013 | 06:26 pm
Digital technologies are the great enablers. They have changed the way we live our lives and have allowed us to do things we never previously thought possible. But our increasing reliance on them pres...
Is Ubuntu Crowdsourcing the Most Radical Smartphone Yet? 14 Aug 2013 | 12:41 am
With eight days left in its thirty-day campaign to raise $32 million dollars, Ubuntu looks like it’s going to come up short in their bid to crowdfund the Ubuntu Edge smartphone. This is far from shock...
Seeker Spotlight: Eurapp 12 Aug 2013 | 07:16 pm
Part of the European Commission’s “Startup Europe” initiative, Eurapp is a new project directed by the National University of Ireland Galway (Digital Enterprise Research Institute) and GigaOM. We rece...
Seeker Spotlight: U.S. EPA & Cincinnati Innovates 5 Aug 2013 | 11:08 pm
Last year, InnoCentive worked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the successful My Air, My Health Challenge, which sought a d...
Zen and Open Innovation 19 Jul 2013 | 10:35 pm
What does Zen have to do with Open Innovation? One is ancient and the other is relatively new. One is spiritual and the other is a service. Well, there’s a great quote in the book, Zen Mind, Beginner’...
Chasing the Sun: Open Innovation Perspectives from the East 3 Jul 2013 | 11:59 pm
One of our senior managers, Simon Schneider, traveled to Singapore last month to speak at the CrowdSourcing Week event and sent back this report: Everyone who arrives at the shiny, big airport of Sin...
Open Innovation with Alpine SMEs in Lyon 3 Jul 2013 | 08:27 pm
There has been discussion lately of the strength of SMEs, with some clusters in and around the Alpine regions of Europe highlighted in particular. But can SMEs, who are widely considered to form the b...
Postcards from RoboCup 2013 3 Jul 2013 | 02:51 am
Over the last few days, I’ve been in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, at the world’s largest robotics competition: RoboCup 2013. Autonomous robots compete in various streams – there is a football competiti...
Why Foundations & Nonprofits Should Consider Open Challenges and Prize Competitions 28 Jun 2013 | 12:09 am
The increasing number of nonprofits exploring open Challenge programs and prize competitions led us to host a recent webinar titled, Challenging the World to Take Up Your Cause: Why Foundations and No...
Why InnoCentive Seekers Should View Solvers as Consumers As Well As Innovators 25 Jun 2013 | 10:28 pm
It’s easy to fall into the trap of putting people into a box, viewing their capabilities and the benefits they can offer too narrowly. Our community of nearly 300,000 multifaceted individuals are not ...
