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The Essential Guide to Trade Secrets and Open Innovation Privacy 

Trade secrets are threatened by AI reverse engineering. Can open innovation privacy be maintained when collective intelligence contributes to trade secrets?

Ranking Innovation in Asia – Does it matter?

Where is Asia heading to? What is needed for innovation in Asia to blossom even faster? Both, very common matters which have been scrutinized and debated umpteenth of times. Dr Bruno Lanvin was in Kuala Lumpur recently for the World Innovation Forum 2013, talking...

Why P&G and GE Ventures are on Crowdfunding Platforms

Why P&G and GE Ventures are on Crowdfunding Platforms

The naysayers like to write-off crowdsourcing as a marketing tool for brands that shortchange consumers for ideas. While it is true that a shallow crowdsourcing campaign can do that, companies that incorporate crowd innovation into their DNA not only create...

Crowdsourcing Endless Creative Possibilities For Brands Worldwide

What makes the consumers go gaga over brands? The attitude that brands sell. There was a time when attitude selling was a myth but today with changing trends and over exposure of media plus with the world becoming a much smaller place, people have changed and so have...

5 Things To Know About the SEC Crowdfunding Rules

Crowdfunding is a part of the ‘Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act’ – a 2012 law that aims to help the economy by financing startups and small biz, hard hit by recession and lack of finance. Last week the SEC released the ground rules for...

Group Brainstorming: 60 Years On - Crowdsourcing Week

Group Brainstorming: 60 Years On

Creativity and innovation have become the buzzwords of the day. For instance, in the 2012 IBM CEO study, more than half of 1700 surveyed CEOs saw innovation as a key resource of sustained economic value. In the same study, 61% of CEOs reported creativity as being one...

Solaborate Aids Social Collaboration for Tech Professionals

I always say that “likes do not save lives” and predict that the future will be about the emergence of web-based channels that allow you to be more productive with your online presence. I like to call this social productivity and I talk about it in a great...

Jeff Bezos on Innovation: Don’t Wait Out For The Lone Genius

Jeff Bezos has been in the news for his business acumen and for his recent purchase of The Washington Post. In his first interview after the purchase, Bezos spoke with Inc on innovation. His quote on innovation stuck out for me. Jeff Bezos, says – “In my...

Next Logical Step in the Crowdfunding Revolution

The crowdfunding revolution is upon us. Whether you’re talking rewards-based crowdfunding, donation, peer to peer lending, or equity crowdfunding, this financing option is growing into a stable and viable option for startups, entrepreneurs and businesses. But...

Crowdsourcing Week Singapore 2014: Call for Speakers

It’s coming! The annual global Crowdsourcing Week conference in Singapore will be held April 7-11, 2014. After the resounding success of the 2013 conference, next year’s event is only going to get bigger and better. We will announce the conference tracks...

Crowds for Tribes

For nearly a year now we’ve been working on a production to promote domestic adventure tourism among Indian youth. This project has been conceptualized in collaboration with an American adventure enthusiast and filmmaker. However, the reason it hasn’t taken off...

CSW London 2013 Showcases Crowd Solutions

Crowdsourcing Week’s (CSW) London Summit on Oct 3, 2013 was a great success with a special focus on how enterprise and startups can rely on crowdsourced solutions to help them grow the long-term viability of their organizations. With KPMG as our premier event...

Missed Our Crowdchat on Equity Crowdfunding? Here is a Recap

How do the advantages of equity crowdfunding compare to the risk? Where do angels and VCs fit into this new equation? Crowdcube’s CEO discusses equity crowdfunding and answers entrepreneur & investor questions during the October 2, 2013 #CrowdChat hosted by Crowdsourcing Week (@CrowdWeek).

Online Collaboration Has Helped Digitize Millions of Books

The brains behind CAPTCHA, Luis von Ahm and his team while proud of the fact that millions were using their invention everyday also saw hundreds of thousands of hours of lost productivity as people typed in their CAPTCHA. The question- ‘how can we better use these 10 secs of human potential that we have at our disposal’ led them to something better than spam protection. Spam protection with a way to digitize books – Re-CAPTCHA. How brilliant!

Announcing CSW Summit: Crowd Innovation for Enterprises

Announcing CSW Summit: Crowd Innovation for Enterprises

The business operating climate in the UK as well as globally, is rapidly changing with emerging disruptive technologies, increasing cost of business and bigger competition. Remaining competitive in such an environment needs innovation, an agile team and strategic...

5 Benefits of Crowdsourcing Principles for Employee Engagement

Employee satisfaction surveys, online assessments and performance reviews could soon be a thing of the past. Rejoice! These employee engagement strategies have been uncomfortable at best and further deepened the divide between employees and upper management. How can crowdsourcing help convert employees into valuable business assets?

5 Benefits of Crowdsourcing Principles for Employee Engagement

5 Benefits of Crowdsourcing Principles for Employee Engagement

Employee satisfaction surveys, online assessments and performance reviews could soon be a thing of the past. Rejoice! These employee engagement strategies have been uncomfortable at best and further deepened the divide between employees and upper management. How can...