A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing

We had a packed meeting of the BQF Innovation  Unit today at which three authors who contributed to the new book, A Guide to Innovation and Crowdsourcing, spoke on the topic.  All delegates received a copy of the book.

I explained the concepts and showed the following sites as examples of OI or Crowdsourcing in [...]

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The Inexorable Rise of Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing

Imagine that you are planning a big surprise party. You want it to be entertaining, spectacular, memorable and different. You could plan and project manage every element of the party yourself: the theme, venue, music, food, drink, entertainment, games, diversions etc. Or you could involve a number of people to help you with their ideas [...]

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Open Innovation and Innocentive

We are now on the brink of a major evolution of open innovation according to an article by  John Hagel and John Seely Brown in BusinessWeek.   They describe the success of Innocentive, the first global Internet-based platform designed to help connect Seekers, those who had difficult research problems, with Solvers, those who came up with creative [...]

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