Category: Open Innovation
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...
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Tipalti Launch NetNow Service to Incentivise Invoice Early Payment – What Does This Mean for Marketplace Platforms?
The banking and financial services sector is becoming more strategically focused and technologically advanced. It has to respond to growing consumer expectations while trying to defend market share against an increasing array of...
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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...
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Crowdsourcing Engineering Solutions Through Challenges
Surcle.io is a global crowd-engineering platform enabling corporations, SMEs, and start-ups to scale resources and tackle engineering and hardware challenges within their organizations and product life cycle. It was launched by...
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How Crowdsourcing Built The World’s #1 Wine Brand
Hi! We are Michael and Bonnie, the founders of the world’s largest wine brand. Did you know that we used crowdsourcing to build Barefoot Wine? Sure, it wasn’t called “Crowdsourcing” back then, but it was the secret to our...
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The Growing Gig-Economy Spurs Demand for Online Payment and Banking Services
With young people finding it increasingly hard to find quality and meaningful work, more and more are turning to the gig-economy. Although this form of work can be unpredictable, stressful and at times downright precarious, and...
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Prize Competitions Part 3: Choosing the Appropriate Crowd to Compete
This is the third part in our three-part blog series on prize competitions. In Part 1 we shared the power of prize competitions. Part 2 helped you understand what makes a successful prize competition. Now, we will give you some...
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Prize Competitions Part 2: Success is in the Design
This is the second part in our three-part blog series on prize competitions, or prize challenges as some people prefer to call them. In Part 1 we shared the power of prize competitions as a means to generate open innovation...
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Prize Competitions, Part 1: The Power of Prize Competitions to Accelerate R&D
This is the first part in a three-part blog series on using prize competitions, also called prize challenges. In this Part 1 we share the power and benefits of prize competitions. In Part 2 we will help you understand what makes...
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5 Simple Questions To Ask Your Crowdsourcing Platform
Crowdsourcing is a great way for an organization to generate external input, particularly when it faces a new challenge. Benfits include tapping in to specific areas of interest or expertise that don’t exist within your...
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