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IdeaScale CEO Shares Innovation Tips with SuperbCrew

IdeaScale

From his background in crowdsourcing software as part of the open government initiative, Rob and co-founder Vivek Bhaskaran founded IdeaScale, which was promptly adopted by 23 federal agencies. Rob Hoehn started his crowdsourcing software career as part of the open government initiative in 2009.?.

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A Brief History of Open Government

IdeaScale

On his first day in office in 2009, President Obama signed the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government and committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government through transparency, public participation, and collaboration. But eligibility doesn’t necessarily correlate with engagement. .

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Qmarkets & Amer Sports – An Innovative Partnership that Created Unprecedented Employee Engagement

Qmarkets

Amer’s R&D team grew from 487 people at the close of 2009 to 802 people at the close of 2016 – amounting to 9% of all employees and 9.5% In 2015, Amer implemented Qmarkets’ Q-max platform for crowdsourcing, sharing information, idea development and evaluation, with tools that drove both white and blue-collar participation.

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33 Routes to Open Innovation

Open Innovation EU

The ‘license’ often include information about the collaborators, how the risks are shared, how the pofits are shared and to what extend the technology or information may or may not be altered or adapted. Route 4: Collaborative Innovation. More information: Lichtenthaler (2009). Route 2: Co-patenting.

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Building a Culture of Innovation

Fehmida Kapadia

These games are wonderful at promoting teamwork, camaraderie and collaboration, because they allow us to be children again and experience the unbridled joy of being silly, of failing and trying again. This model of unbridled creativity made Zappos wildly successful and it was acquired by Amazon in 2009.

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Proven Social Strategy to Accelerate the Inventive Process

Daniel Burrus

The recent announcement by NASA of a new series of contests aimed at crowdsourcing solutions to problems astronauts encounter while working in space by using a contest raises this question regarding the difference between disruption and tweaking in technological innovation.

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The fascinating story of Giffgaff: A co-creation case study

hackerearth

Unlike crowdsourcing, co-creation uses a small group of known partners and involves deeper collaboration. Unlike crowdsourcing, co-creation uses a small group of known partners and involves deeper collaboration. One could perhaps think of crowdsourcing and co-creation as different aspects of open innovation.