science Archives - Crowdsourcing Week

Global Corporation is BOLD Enough to Disrupt Itself

by Clive Reffell | Feb 13, 2019 |

We’re getting increasingly used to witnessing the commercial disruption taking place due to mass digital connectivity giving rise to new business models. In many instances it’s where existing players in a market place come under...

Searching for the Boldest Citizen Scientist

by Shay Hershkovitz | Jan 22, 2019 |

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...

Overcoming Barriers to Adopt Innovation Crowdsourcing

by Enrique Ramirez | Jan 18, 2019 |

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...

Sourceability to Surcle: from supplying electronic components to crowdsourcing innovation

by Clive Reffell | Nov 14, 2018 |

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....

How HeroX Helps Solve Humanity’s Problems

by Clive Reffell | Sep 5, 2018 |

All too often, the biggest challenges require the most radical solutions and innovations. Yet most companies don’t recruit on the basis of candidates being radical, they tend to prefer reliability and consistency. Add in the...

How Crowdsourcing is Making Science Smarter

by Damon Brown | Jul 17, 2018 |

Major scientific discovery has traditionally been the playground of one group: the elite. It’s no coincidence that Darwin, Copernicus, and others legends came from well-off backgrounds as scientific breakthroughs often require...

How Crowdsourcing is Changing Innovation in Science and the Space Frontier

by Clive Reffell | Jun 21, 2018 |

The abundant and ceaseless supply of scientific information causes overload. Scientists, no matter how intelligent and hardworking they are, and with the best computers at their disposal, are pushed past the point where they can...

Looking Ahead to New Healthcare Work Opportunities

by Clive Reffell | Jun 7, 2018 |

Healthcare spending is increasing significantly around the world, due to aging and increasing populations, developing markets, advances in medical treatments, an increase in chronic diseases, rising obesity levels and climbing...

Harnessing Collective Wisdom for Impact: the Case of Google Lunar XPRIZE

by Shay Hershkovitz | May 30, 2018 |

Crowdsourcing is a great way to generate novel ideas and has been adopted by corporations and governments around the world. But crowdsourcing has the potential to change the world – to solve some of humanity’s most pressing...

Iron and Steel Give Way to Data Centres as the Capital of Northern Sweden Transforms to a Sustainable Future

by Clive Reffell | Mar 2, 2018 |

Our two-centre conference next month in Swedish Lapland begins in the coastal city of Luleå, a city transitioning from a centre of traditional heavy industry and timber production to a digitised, sustainable future providing...