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Five Must-Attend Innovation & Tech Conferences in 2017

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So, to help you pick, we’ve selected 2017’s most fascinating, compelling innovation conferences to mark on your calendars. Disrupt 2017. Hosted by industry website TechCrunch, this is often where you’ll see the most out-there, creative ideas in innovation, especially around technology and apps.

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Webinar: How The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Recognizes Emerging Innovators

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We’ll discuss how they used innovation management technology to diversify their approach to innovation, combined organic innovation with innovation challenges, how leadership drove innovation, their unique rewards and recognition program, and the challenges the current moment presents.

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A Look Back at the Innovation Management Awards

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Identifying employment opportunities for people with disabilities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Crowdsourcing a winning ballot measure! Taking Ten New Technologies to Market. Who will the winners be in 2017? Department of Labor. Finding the top-selling product of all time.

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How the GSAs 10X Program Advances Government Innovation

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Overview : Founded in 2017 off of a popular crowdsourcing initiative, the Government Services Administration (GSA)’s 10X program internally crowdsources ideas to design new approaches and launch new programs. In 2015, the GSA held what was intended to be a one-off event called “The Great Pitch.”

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Companies betting big on open innovation

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[This paradigm] assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as they look to advance their technology.” ( Henry Chesbrough, 2006 ). The confluence of diverse ideologies and technologies help build better business models that are sustainable in the long term.

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What Does an Innovator Look Like?

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They were passionate about new ideas (and new technologies) and they wanted to empower their co-workers. If you want to learn more from IdeaScale’s customer data, download the 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report. The post What Does an Innovator Look Like? appeared first on IdeaScale.

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How Can Crowdsourcing Help the Caribbean to Transform by 2040?

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The devastating hurricanes in 2017, the massive earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010 and other natural disasters have affected the Caribbean economy, which is heavily dependent on tourism. With that said, I think it would be great to crowdsource our ideas. The post How Can Crowdsourcing Help the Caribbean to Transform by 2040?