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Q&A with Dyan Finkhousen, Director of Open Innovation at General Electric While the idea of open innovation is still fairly new, there are an increasing number of initiatives and companies that are getting value out of their efforts with this new collaborative...
CSW Summit Washington DC on June 15 brought together a famously distinguished group of crowdsourcing thought leaders and innovators to share insights and trends on how the second wave of the crowd economy is reshaping industries and transforming organizations. Between...
Crowdsourcing Week is delighted and excited to bring its first summit to Washington DC on June 15 2017. CSW Summit DC will focus on the second wave of the crowd economy. In the world of Hi + Ai, blockchain and gamification, both domestic and international industry...
Crowdsourcing can reduce costs, speed up project timelines, tap in to crowd intelligence and creativity, and engage citizens at all levels of corporate and government processes. It’s not just for new startups, iconic organisations including NASA and GE have specialist...
Reward and U.S. equity crowdfunding lets entrepreneurs and company owners take orders for products or trade shares for investment funds. Who would have thought in 2000 that it would be possible for business owners to raise seven-figure sums from people they didn’t...
Georg Fankhauser has spent much of his career as a Mergers and Acquisitions Consultant, successfully overseeing more than 80 company sales and acquisition projects in Switzerland, Germany and France. Since October 2016 he has also been co-founder and manager of KOSOVA...
Can open innovation stimulate critical improvements and breakthroughs that will provide direct benefits to the world? In recent years, many organizations have turned to open innovation to solve their toughest challenges and address their R&D needs. The use of...
Artificial Intelligence is no longer the future, it’s the present and increasing at a phenomenal rate driven by explosive growth of big data, inexpensive computing power and storage, and advanced algorithms like machine learning that enable accurate predictions to be...
We spoke to Maia Weinstock, an American science writer and a LEGO enthusiast. After seven years of accepting Maia’s designs for generic scientist figures the company announced in February 2017 it would launch her “Women of NASA” set of figures featuring five prominent...
Despite apparent greater control of a personal work/life balance open to remote workers and operators in the gig economy, these people often have higher levels of stress and sleep disruption. However, the flexibility offered by ICT has the potential to alter and...
An Australian entrepreneur who has created Spacer.com has his eyes on the US shared warehousing space market. Spacer is cost-free to storage space owners, and like Uber and Airbnb, the space renters pay a small transaction fee. I had a chance to connect with Michael...
In our article that announced CSW Summit D.C. we were excited about bringing together some of the world's top crowdsourcing exponents and influencers in the home of the US Government at a time when extensive infrastructure issues are going to be debated and decided...
The early actions and declarations of President Trump have swung even greater world interest to Washington D.C., where his frequent direct messaging to over 27 million Twitter followers has clearly disrupted the traditional methods of news gathering and dissemination...
Bitcoin trading can be complicated and confusing for beginners. There are so many considerations, options, and dangers that lots of people give up before they even start. Luckily, it looks like the days of the bitcoin wild-west are behind us. Every year,...
