Shay Hershkovitz

Shay Hershkovitz

Dr. Hershkovitz is the Director of Research at the XPRIZE Foundation, a crowdsourcing practitioner and a senior research fellow at the Intelligence Methodology Research Center (IMRC).

Articles by Shay Hershkovitz

Bold Open Innovation Sparking Both Business and Social Impact

Posted by Shay Hershkovitz | Feb 20, 2019 | Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation

Open innovation is a term coined by Henry Chesbrough in his 2003 book, “Open Innovation: The new imperative for creating and...

Searching for the Boldest Citizen Scientist

Posted by Shay Hershkovitz | Jan 22, 2019 | Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation

For centuries, science has been the pursuit of amateur, self-funded and self-motivated scientists: Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin...

Banks in a Blockchain Future

Posted by Shay Hershkovitz | Nov 8, 2018 | blockchain, Crowd Finance

The banking industry has always been perceived as a bedrock of economic stability, but it is experiencing disruption at an increasing...

Blockchain Democracy: Fixing a Wrecked System

Posted by Shay Hershkovitz | Sep 12, 2018 | Citizen Engagement, Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is a new term, possibly coined in 2005 by Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson to describe how businesses were using the...

What’s Next for Gig-Economy Payments?

Posted by Shay Hershkovitz | Aug 22, 2018 | Crowdsourcing, Future of Work

Sometimes I work with freelancers. No, that’s not true. I turn to freelancers almost every day: I ride Lyft and order food from...

The Best Motivation Always Comes From Within

Posted by Shay Hershkovitz | Jul 26, 2018 | Crowdsourcing, Future of Work

Many giant companies have something in common: they are constantly engaged in crowdsourcing activities with their customers. Whether...

A Thousand Eyes Are Better Than Two

Posted by Shay Hershkovitz | Jul 3, 2018 | Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing, Mass Collaboration

How do you scan an area of 305,000 sq km (118,000 sq mi)? This was the challenge for several countries in 2014, trying to solve the...

Harnessing Collective Wisdom for Impact: the Case of Google Lunar XPRIZE

Posted by Shay Hershkovitz | May 30, 2018 | Collective Intelligence, Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation

Crowdsourcing is a great way to generate novel ideas and has been adopted by corporations and governments around the world. But...

When Humans Meet AI: The Next Generation of Crowdsourcing

Posted by Shay Hershkovitz | Apr 19, 2018 | Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Online Communities

Crowdsourcing has been around for a very long time. Although the term was coined in 2005 by Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson, editors...

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