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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?

Top 5 Crowd Testing Platforms - Crowdsourcing Week

Top 5 Crowd Testing Platforms

On-demand crowdsourced research through crowdtesting platforms obtains real user feedback to ensure software reliability at an incredibly fast speed.

Hacker On-Demand - Crowdsourcing Week

Hacker On-Demand

In cybersecurity news, leading provider Synack has announced an on-demand service delivered by crowdsourced hackers, called Synack Campaigns.

What is Connected Innovation Intelligence

How to 10X R&D Using Connected Innovation Intelligence

At Crowdsourcing Week we champion the benefits of open innovation as a means to accelerate the development of breakthroughs, solutions and inventions. A growing number of organisations utilise open innovation platforms to go beyond in-house R&D teams, who work in...

Crowdsourcing Advertising Content in a Changing Industry - Crowdsourcing Week

Crowdsourcing Advertising Content in a Changing Industry

The concept of crowdsourcing remains sometimes misunderstood, and can still be confused by non-users with outsourcing. Before I launched Crowdsourcing Week in 2012 I ran a virtual advertising agency in New York City, and so I feel perfectly well qualified to talk...

An explanation of open innovation, different types, and its benefits

What is Open Innovation?

Open innovation is a process that goes beyond an organization’s own research and development resources and enlists the support of outside help

The Crowdsourced World of Freelancing and Remote Working in 2025 - Crowdsourcing Week

The Crowdsourced World of Freelancing and Remote Working in 2025

Freelance jobs and the remote working future of work have already arrived for a large number of the online white-collar workforce. According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report published in October 2020, 84% of employers are set to rapidly digitalize...

The First Crowdsourced NFT and Crowdsourcing NFT Appraisals - Crowdsourcing Week

The First Crowdsourced NFT and Crowdsourcing NFT Appraisals

Through possession of non-fungible tokens, NFTs, any of us can be the owner of digital works of art, books, music and video content, including iconic moments in sport or other performances and events. Their use extends to event tickets, anything collectible and...

how crowdsourcing can help in retailing

The Ways Crowdsourcing Helps All Parties in the Retail Ecosystem

Technology has hurt traditional retailing, no question about it. Online shopping has transformed consumer behaviour and a growing switch away from physical trips to stores has been accelerated by pandemic lockdowns and social distancing regulations. Yet technology is...

open innovation crowdsourcing a specialist curated crowd

When to Consider a Specialist Curated Crowd Within Open Innovation

When seeking open innovation solutions for vexing problems, many large organizations and companies think they have a binary either/or choice. The perceived choice is to go down a broad crowdsourcing route with a wide range of non-expert potential problem-solvers, or...