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Best Practices for Internal Crowdsourcing: Lessons Learned from NASA

IdeaScale

The center was created in 2011 by the federal Office of Science, Technology, and Policy to foster innovation at NASA and throughout U.S. government departments. NASA@Work, the space program’s internal crowdsourcing program, is charged with promoting knowledge-sharing and idea generation.

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The Thin Line Between Innovation and Insanity

Qmarkets

Dan Shechtman was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for its discovery. Four years later, in 1954, the British Doctors Study, a study of some 40,000 doctors over 20 years, confirmed the suggestion, based on which the government issued advice that smoking and lung cancer rates were related. But the initial response was ridicule.

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The Thin Line Between Innovation and Insanity

Qmarkets

Dan Shechtman was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for its discovery. Four years later, in 1954, the British Doctors Study, a study of some 40,000 doctors over 20 years, confirmed the suggestion, based on which the government issued advice that smoking and lung cancer rates were related. But the initial response was ridicule.