Open Innovation

Crowdsourcing business or other organization solutions from external problem solution providers, often through prize challenge platforms

7 Steps to a Successful Open Innovation Prize Challenge

7 Steps to a Successful Open Innovation Prize Challenge

More and more organizations are recognizing the benefits of open innovation challenges as a means to tap in to the collective wisdom of many people outside of their own employees or other regular sources. Solutions can be surprisingly different from people outside of...

Resolving Open Innovation Challenges in Mechatronics

Resolving Open Innovation Challenges in Mechatronics

In our July 2019 article that featured Surcle, the open innovation challenge platform in the electronics hardware sector, we mentioned briefly a challenge that was live at the time. Zollner Elektronik AG had launched The Protocol Converter Challenge in an effort to...

Fielding Open Innovation Challenges in Agri-tech

Fielding Open Innovation Challenges in Agri-tech

As the population grows at an ever faster and faster rate, transforming how the world feeds itself is going to be a necessity. Even though up to a third of the food currently produced goes to waste, incremental improvements to current practices aren’t going to be...