Fri.Sep 22, 2017

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Tackling Alzheimer’s Disease with Open Innovation

IdeaConnection

Alzheimer’s is an incurable and fatal disease that affects around 50 million people all over the world. Included in this number are nearly half of individuals who are over 85 years of age. To accelerate research into treatment and detection and to find a cure, a group known as the Alzheimer’s Breakthrough team is turning to open innovation and crowdsourcing models.

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5 Steps to Turn Accidental Discoveries into Great Inventions

Innovation Excellence

The story of the invention of the Post-It note by 3M is relatively known.but this is not the only story of accidental discoveries that turned into some of the greatest inventions ever made.

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Our ‘Underground’ Executive Roundtable in Boston

Innovation Leader

We brought together 16 innovation and R&D leaders at the Johnson & Johnson Innovation Center in Cambridge this month. Here are the pictures.