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How Crowdsourcing is Enhancing the Healthcare Sector

IdeaScale

In 2013, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation took a step that many found surprising: creating a prize and asking the world to reengineer the condom. But little noted was that Gates was pioneering crowdsourcing in healthcare … and that it worked. Open Innovation In Healthcare. Challenges And Rewards.

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Disruptive Energy.

100%Open

While working as a journalist on World Coal magazine in the 1990s I was interviewing the president of a very large Canadian coal company who told me that in 10 years they would not be mining coal. He said yes, we printed. Lots of paper, lots of chat, and, dare we call it, lots of hot air. Well, that depends on who you ask.

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What Makes Crowds Clever?

100%Open

100%Open has had a run of three really successful online crowds recently that appear to have been of above average productivity and intelligence. For example we’ve run our first Russian community for P&G household care brands and have kicked off another P&G community in the UK for laundry sector. ” Great question.

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Building upon the four essential pillars for innovation

Paul Hobcraft

It is always welcome to read a thoughtful article that reminds me, no, it actually inspires me, by reinforcing my own belief that innovation is progressing, even if this is sometimes frustratingly slow. So the article “ Want to Win at Business Model Innovation? Today, more than ever we have this real need to look towards the future.

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Game Changers: How Citizen Science and Gamification Are Transforming the Business World

Qmarkets

In the current disruptive business landscape, where innovation is more important than ever , organizations need to look to alternative sources to gather ideas and solutions in order to remain successful. As such, businesses are beginning to recognize the potential citizen science has for supporting open innovation initiatives.