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Build Your Career by Sharing a Crowdsourced Idea

IdeaScale

In 2013, Stearns was 26-years-old. He wanted to use his company’s rechargeable battery technology to put a fan and a pump on top of the ubiquitous orange Home Depot bucket. He says surprising things happen when you pull together a multidisciplinary group to crowdsource ideas. It changed his life.

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A Look Back at the Innovation Management Awards

IdeaScale

Learn more about any of these stories (2013 – 2016) by following the links in their summaries: 2013 : The Cerebral Palsy Alliance. Identifying employment opportunities for people with disabilities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Crowdsourcing a winning ballot measure!

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U.S. Army Announces New Digital Transformation Strategy

IdeaScale

Any government organization faces several challenges when it comes to technology, none more so than the U.S. The technology needs to be well-understood and field-tested to work in a variety of conditions. This generally makes it difficult to deploy new technology as field testing, in particular, is a long-term process.

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Open Innovation Success Stories in the Car Industry

IdeaConnection

In 2017, Porsche launched an open innovation competition to find new ways to leverage blockchain technology, the technology that powers the crypto currency bitcoin. In 2013, the motor giant Citroen built the UK’s first crowdsourced car.

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Avoid the Iridium Moment

Destination Innovation

They crowdsourced location data from the GPS sensors on people’s mobile phones in order to capture traffic information. in 2013 it had 50 million users – far more ‘traffic sensors’ than Nokia could match. Unfortunately for Nokia an Israeli start-up company called Waze found a much better and cheaper way to gather traffic information.

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Top 10 Innovation Links for the Week of 1.8.16

Planview

Welcome to the first 2016 weekly roundup of innovation links, where we feature a carefully curated selection of our favorite content on innovation, crowdsourcing, and more from around the web. But it’s not just about the tech itself; this report is also organized by socioeconomic and technological impact. Happy New Year, readers!

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Wazoku Secures New Funding from Barclays

Wazoku

Crowdsourcing specialist Wazoku secures new funding from Barclays to support further development. Wazoku a UK crowdsourcing company and leading provider of collaborative innovation software, has received new venture debt finance from Barclays of £680,000. Wazoku is a crowdsourcing company headquartered in London. About Wazoku.