For centuries, science has been the pursuit of amateur, self-funded and self-motivated scientists: Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin and Thomas Edison – to name just a few. However, in the first half of the 20th century, science became dominated by...
Managing change within an organization is never easy since a company is essentially formed by people, and people are not usually easy to change because of cultural factors (the culture of the country, the industry, the company itself, and so on). The ennomotive...
Follow the news today and you’re likely to read something about how crowdsourcing is aiding advances in the robotics industry. This week alone we’ve seen stories concerning robots entering the healthcare industry, further advances in self-driving car technology, and...
The past decade has raised the bar in open innovation, particularly the last year. As celebrated at the Crowdsourcing Week 2018 global conference, we’ve recently maximized the power of the group and pushed scientific and technical ideas to their potential. Or have we?...
No matter the scale of your business or the specific nature of your target audience, content marketing has a huge role to play in your overall advertising strategy. However, you may not have unlimited resources to allocate to content marketing, or maybe you may want...
It is very reassuring to small-stake equity crowdfunding investors to believe that the terms of their deals are the same terms as those offered to large investors, with no discrimination against ‘the small guys’. However, the latest round of ‘in-house’ fundraising by...
StackCommerce is the leading native commerce platform for online publishers, communities and brands. Since 2011 it has provided sponsored content to publishers including Engadget, Gizmodo, Business Insider, and Huffington Post for their readers to organically discover...
A third of all the food produced in the world is thrown away. It represents an annual value of $1 trillion, and in the UK half the food is wasted in the home. It’s one of our planet’s greatest problems. There are millions of people who don’t have enough,...
Over the last five years, Crowdsourcing Week has held conferences with some of the world's largest tech pioneers and entrepreneurs. We’ve just finished our fifth global conference, which was last month in Washington DC. But, for our latest event, we've been working on...
Since May 2015, Sourceability has been providing electronic component supply chain solutions on a global basis, with a network of offices based around three global distribution centers in Miami, Hong Kong and Singapore. Sourceability delivers electronic components by...
The banking industry has always been perceived as a bedrock of economic stability, but it is experiencing disruption at an increasing pace. A sea change in finance is being driven by technology, which is both expanding service capabilities and reshaping client...
The Weekend Expeditions started at the National Air & Space Museum where Bud Holloway gave the group more than a 2 hour tour around space. Friday’s conference had ended with a panel discussion on how using open innovation input is an integral part of commercial...
Individual and organization needs, particularly within government, can seem at odds, though Day 3 of our CSW Global 2018 conference on October 26 emphasized the importance of them evolving together. At its best, the organization fully represents the individual, and...
Can we ever balance the power between man and machine or, perhaps, even use technology to balance the power among men themselves? It was a rousing first day of conference at CSW Global 2018, all building up to this same question. The many speakers tackled job...