Open innovation is a term coined by Henry Chesbrough in his 2003 book, “Open Innovation: The new imperative for creating and profiting from technology”. Open innovation assumes that valuable ideas can come from inside or out of...
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We’ve had one of the oldest crowdsourcing examples right under our nose. We vote every single day, whether it is an election of our next world leader, a response to “What do we want to eat?” at the family dinner table, or among...
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Increasingly visible crowdsourcing platforms like Threadless scale quickly by harnessing the innovation power of crowds and capitalizing on networking effects. However, failure cases such as Quirky, show that sustaining ventures...
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Crowdsourcing content is not only an incredibly efficient way to publish more pages, it can also help to increase the quality of your work. By accumulating knowledge, ideas and work from others you can influence your own posts...
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In Part 1 we looked at decentralization of electricity generation, largely due to the availability of affordable equipment for domestic-scale production from renewable sources. Part 2 looks at the distribution side of the...
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How can used mobile phones be collected via reverse logistics, throughout the city of Amsterdam, to facilitate replacement, repair, remanufacturing and recycling? You know your old mobile phone? Yea, that’s right, the one you...
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Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – How a Trump presidency affects real estate crowdfunding; why bike companies are turning to public money; CrowdFlower announces a scientific advisory board...
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Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read – AI and crowdsourcing remaking the legal profession; Kickstarter creating over 300,000 jobs; Internet’s third wave coming and many more …...
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Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team. Read how DBS Bank, UNESCO and American Apparel are using...
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This year our global conference is in London, a truly iconic, vibrant, global city. And one that’s creaking at some of the seams of its infrastructure. This morning my tube was delayed on its journey to ease over-crowding at its...
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