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Can the Wisdom of Crowds Help Solve the Refugee Crisis in Europe?

Qmarkets

Budapest, Hungary - September 7, 2015: Children's shoes from war refugees at the Keleti Railway Station. On both fronts, crowdsourcing--tapping on the collective wisdom of people in Europe and the rest of the world--can become a valuable source of ideas and solutions. . Using prediction markets to forecast future crises.

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Can an Open Innovation Challenge Methodology Help Solve the Refugee Crisis?

Qmarkets

In 2015, an overcrowded boat carrying a group of Syrian refugees capsized and sank off an island in Greece. It’s time to realize the power an open innovation challenge methodology - specifically one that involves crowdsourcing - can have when it comes to affecting real change. Adopting business approaches to fight global crises.

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Can the Wisdom of Crowds Help Solve the Refugee Crisis in Europe?

Qmarkets

Budapest, Hungary - September 7, 2015: Children's shoes from war refugees at the Keleti Railway Station. On both fronts, crowdsourcing--tapping on the collective wisdom of people in Europe and the rest of the world--can become a valuable source of ideas and solutions. . Using prediction markets to forecast future crises.

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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 raises £2.5M to expand global reach for idea management platform

Wazoku

London-based SaaS eyes global expansion and product enhancement, as demand for idea management set to reach £1.17bn by 2022. With the funding, Wazoku intends to continue its recent global expansion, further refine and improve its technology and to make good on its core objective, to ‘change the world one idea at a time’.

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Sustainable Innovation: SDG 13 – Our Journey to Wazoku becoming Carbon Neutral

Wazoku

Technology and innovation are competitive sectors, and we want to recruit and retain the best talent to allow us to grow. Idea management and open innovation are very tied to sustainability, and as I mentioned above, many of our clients use our software and services to drive sustainable innovation.

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Crowdsourcing with the Competition: Rewarding Venture or Precarious Proposition?

Qmarkets

Why your company needs to think about crowdsourcing with the competition…. Tesla and Toyota for example opened their patent books to the competition back in 2015 to help accelerate innovation around fuel cells. The answer is technology. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” Sleeping With the Enemy.