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Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources

Board of Innovation

Collective intelligence & prediction platforms Lumenogic – collective intelligence markets Ushahidi – crowdsourcing crisis information Kaggle – data mining and forecasting Google Image Labeler – crowdsourced image labeling 04.

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Are We Crushing Real Innovation?

Paul Hobcraft

Once you get past the opening rant about the infamous Juicero juicer, that has now been used as an illustration of how investors funded something that automates something that you can do faster by hand. The government. Truly innovation breakthroughs have come through Government investments.

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3 paradigm-shifting insights on creating global prosperity

Christensen Institute

This book constantly informs our global prosperity work at the Christensen Institute, with innovative frameworks based on years of research on how to educate and train personnel across various entities and government bodies in order to help make economies more prosperous for everyone. A “ pull ” strategy can drive sustainable development.

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With ESAs soaring, tech platform Odyssey emerges to help families access state funding

Christensen Institute

To tackle that problem, edtech startup Odyssey , a platform that helps connect families to public funding and education services, has raised a $4.75 In the first six weeks of implementation, Odyssey successfully processed over 47,000 student applications, approved 27,000 of them, and awarded $27 million in government dollars.

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Applying innovation thinking in different horizons

Paul Hobcraft

Then premise 3 : Exploitation- and exploration-oriented initiatives are separated in terms of organisational anchoring, governance and funding and finally premise 4 : Fostering an innovation portfolio is enabled by a proper idea management system which allows to either assign an internal or external idea to the corresponding units or to reject it.

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Applying innovation thinking in different horizons

Paul Hobcraft

Then premise 3 : Exploitation- and exploration-oriented initiatives are separated in terms of organisational anchoring, governance and funding and finally premise 4 : Fostering an innovation portfolio is enabled by a proper idea management system which allows to either assign an internal or external idea to the corresponding units or to reject it.

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Planning a Taxonomy Project

Boxes and Arrows

Taxonomy governance. You might be using the taxonomy for tagging or, in librarian terms, indexing or cataloging. I had considered building a Drupal site to manage an inventory, but I have neither the funding or time to implement such a complex site. Planning a taxonomy. The many uses of taxonomy. Tree testing a taxonomy.

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